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At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not. -- Guy Kawasaki
Bootstrapping goes awry when entrepreneurs focus on saving pennies to the detriment of the Big Picture. -- Guy Kawasaki
Just be nice, take genuine interest in the people you meet, and keep in touch with people you like. This will create a group of people who are invested in helping you because they know you and appreciate you. -- Guy Kawasaki
Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements. -- Guy Kawasaki
I don't think Steve Jobs nauseated people when talking about how great Apple stuff was. The reason why he didn't nauseate people is because it was true. The start of all great marketing is to have a great product. -- Guy Kawasaki
And this is the beginning of the end. -- Guy Kawasaki
The wisest course of action is to take your best shot with a prototype, immediately get it to market, and iterate quickly. If you wait for ideal circumstances in which you have all the information you need (which is impossible), the market will pass you by. -- Guy Kawasaki
Don't ask people to do something you wouldn't. -- Guy Kawasaki
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent. -- Guy Kawasaki
The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas. -- Guy Kawasaki
Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable. -- Guy Kawasaki
Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free! -- Guy Kawasaki
When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff. -- Guy Kawasaki
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life. -- Guy Kawasaki
To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed the second coming -- Guy Kawasaki
Hockey is the only thing that I'm not good at that I love. -- Guy Kawasaki
Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across. -- Guy Kawasaki
People who earn the label "creative" are really just people who
come up with more combinations of ideas, find interesting ones faster,
and are willing to try them out. The problem is that most schools
and organizations train us out of those habits. -- Guy Kawasaki
The first follower is what transforms the lone nut into a leader, and in a startup, that first follower is usually a cofounder. -- Guy Kawasaki
Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book? -- Guy Kawasaki
I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them. -- Guy Kawasaki
You need to earn the right to promote. -- Guy Kawasaki
An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case. -- Guy Kawasaki
The desire to change the world is a tremendous advantage as you travel down the difficult path ahead because focusing on a lofty goal is more energizing and attracts more talent than simply making a buck. -- Guy Kawasaki
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you're sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read. -- Guy Kawasaki
As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product. -- Guy Kawasaki
A company should search for every instance of the use of its name and zoom in when there are issues - both good and bad. -- Guy Kawasaki
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. -- Guy Kawasaki
Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies. -- Guy Kawasaki
The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers. -- Guy Kawasaki
You know in a startup, you only need three people. You need someone who can make something. You need someone who can sell it. And you need someone to collect the money. That's the only three roles in a startup. So which one are you? -- Guy Kawasaki
Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap. -- Guy Kawasaki
Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place. -- Guy Kawasaki
The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people's lives. -- Guy Kawasaki
Skillful pitching ... is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of raising capital. More important are the realities of your organization: Are you building something meaningful, long lasting, and valuable to society? -- Guy Kawasaki
At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both. -- Guy Kawasaki
Companies should always want to delight their customers. -- Guy Kawasaki
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. MARK TWAIN -- Guy Kawasaki
I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn. -- Guy Kawasaki
The next time you think that there's something that you "can't live without", wait for a week and then see if you're still alive or not -- Guy Kawasaki
Inertia. Guy's law of enchantment: People at rest will remain at rest, and people in motion will keep moving in the same direction unless an outside enchanter acts upon them. -- Guy Kawasaki
I'm a lousy predictor of the future. -- Guy Kawasaki
The most powerful sign is that your work no longer enchants you - it's not deep, delightful, and mutually satisfying. When this happens, it may be time to look for new challenges. -- Guy Kawasaki
If you provide enough value, then you earn the right to promote your company in order to recruit new customers. The key is to always provide value. -- Guy Kawasaki
It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing. -- Guy Kawasaki
Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption. -- Guy Kawasaki
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing. -- Guy Kawasaki
You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing. -- Guy Kawasaki
When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight. -- Guy Kawasaki
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. -- Guy Kawasaki
A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears. -- Guy Kawasaki
Writing is one way to achieve enchantment. -- Guy Kawasaki
For startups, SM is now crucial: it has never been cheaper and easier to reach one's customers. Entrepreneurs should thank God for Twitter, Facebook ... -- Guy Kawasaki
Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do. -- Guy Kawasaki
The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal world, a startup would never have to seek funds at all. -- Guy Kawasaki
It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate. -- Guy Kawasaki
If you use social media right, you will piss people off. It's actually recommended! -- Guy Kawasaki
Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates. -- Guy Kawasaki
The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money. -- Guy Kawasaki
I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.' -- Guy Kawasaki
I don't "need" the rush to be happy. I'd be perfectly happy without the attention and action. -- Guy Kawasaki
What I learned from my kids is that the greatest joy in life is not from material trappings, power, or visibility. The greatest joy comes from your kids. Nothing is even close to my kids in terms of bringing me joy. -- Guy Kawasaki
If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job. -- Guy Kawasaki
Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.
-- Guy Kawasaki
If you're not pissing someone off on social media, you're not using it aggressively enough. -- Guy Kawasaki
A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You'll know that you're likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people. -- Guy Kawasaki
Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it. -- Guy Kawasaki
You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing - grinding, buffing, and polishing - not writing. -- Guy Kawasaki
Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that's one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring). -- Guy Kawasaki
Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn't easy, but it's fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world. -- Guy Kawasaki
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur - or APE. -- Guy Kawasaki
If you make meaning, you'll make money. -- Guy Kawasaki
Someone once said that death is God's way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out. -- Guy Kawasaki
For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section, to move a section, reorganize the section, anything I want to do, I just boot words, and I do what I want to do. So, I feel completely empowered when I'm a writer. -- Guy Kawasaki
A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage. -- Guy Kawasaki
Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players; B players hire C
players; and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to Z
players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies. -- Guy Kawasaki
It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence. -- Guy Kawasaki
Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out. -- Guy Kawasaki
An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better. -- Guy Kawasaki
Peg and I are in the trenches of social media, not in a "war room" back at headquarters. We acquired our knowledge though experimentation and diligence, not pontification, sophistry, and conference attendance. -- Guy Kawasaki
You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth. -- Guy Kawasaki
The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy. -- Guy Kawasaki
Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you've gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and discoveries with your fellow employees and occasionally even with your competitors. -- Guy Kawasaki
Enchantment can be done with writing but I think enchantment is basically a prospective or an operating system for life. That you can enchant a person who is assigning your airplane seat, your hotel room, your waiter, your waitress. -- Guy Kawasaki
If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number. -- Guy Kawasaki
From the outside looking in, trying to decipher Google's search algorithms is like reading tea leaves in a toilet bowl ... as it's flushing. With the lights off. -- Guy Kawasaki
People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars. -- Guy Kawasaki
Learning by anecdote is risky, but waiting for scientific proof is too. -- Guy Kawasaki
My mother taught me not to take any crap from anyone and to stand up for my rights. You might not believe this lesson came from a tiny Japanese woman, but it's true. -- Guy Kawasaki
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose. - Ludwig van Beethoven -- Guy Kawasaki
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world ... not make a fast buck. -- Guy Kawasaki
Not many people agree with what I do. -- Guy Kawasaki
Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore ... but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is. -- Guy Kawasaki
Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there's always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do. -- Guy Kawasaki
It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it. -- Guy Kawasaki
Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea. -- Guy Kawasaki
Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little. -- Guy Kawasaki
The telephone operator has one of the biggest roles in creating your organization's image ... indeed, many people may come into contact with no one except your operator. -- Guy Kawasaki
Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do. -- Guy Kawasaki
The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it. -- Guy Kawasaki
The key to evangelism is a great product. It is easy, almost unavoidable, to catalyze evangelism for a great product. It is hard, almost impossible, to catalyze evangelism for crap. -- Guy Kawasaki
The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless
most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college. -- Guy Kawasaki
The goal is to provide inspiring information that moves people to action. -- Guy Kawasaki
Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing. -- Guy Kawasaki
If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people. -- Guy Kawasaki
There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others. -- Guy Kawasaki
The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I've never had the same reaction to a product, not in 25 years. -- Guy Kawasaki
I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist. -- Guy Kawasaki
There are two ways to approach the application process: trying to hit a home run by getting an immediate 'Yes, here's an offer' or trying not to be eliminated. I recommend the second approach. -- Guy Kawasaki
The greater the difficulty of the change, the greater the need for enchantment. Factors that cause friction include expense, risk, and "politics." If a change is a big deal, then it's a big deal to make it happen. -- Guy Kawasaki
Defy the crowd. The crowd isn't always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one. -- Guy Kawasaki
In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule ... use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts. -- Guy Kawasaki
If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe. -- Guy Kawasaki
The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting
intelligent life becomes difficult. -- Guy Kawasaki
My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I'm trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists. -- Guy Kawasaki
In some cases . . . the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it. . . . You use the knife carefully because you know it doesn't care who it cuts. -- Guy Kawasaki
The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money. -- Guy Kawasaki
Greatness is won, not awarded. -- Guy Kawasaki
Meaning is not creating a cool place to work with free food, Ping-Pong, volleyball, and dogs. Meaning is making the world a better place. -- Guy Kawasaki
Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows. -- Guy Kawasaki
Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction. -- Guy Kawasaki
Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules. -- Guy Kawasaki
Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole ... He just has a different OS. -- Guy Kawasaki
Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life. -- Guy Kawasaki
A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. -- Guy Kawasaki
There is only one Steve Jobs, but if you want a shot at being the next Steve Jobs, learn to communicate using stories, demos, and pictures. -- Guy Kawasaki
I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity. -- Guy Kawasaki
Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make. -- Guy Kawasaki
I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family. -- Guy Kawasaki
Good enough is good enough. There is time for refinement later. It's not how great you start - it's how great you end up. -- Guy Kawasaki
If you make money, you might not make meaning. -- Guy Kawasaki
Writing
is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time.
The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and
writing some more can help you control issues that you face. -- Guy Kawasaki
The purpose of a pitch is to stimulate interest, not to close a deal. -- Guy Kawasaki
People are forgiving of v 1.0 of a product if it's truly innovative and useful. Then you can get away with a lot. But if you're merely marginally improving the status quo, then you better be rock solid. -- Guy Kawasaki
Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment. And in this world, the combination is a breath of fresh air. -- Guy Kawasaki
Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact. -- Guy Kawasaki
The most powerful way to convince the interviewer that you can do the job is to show how much you already know about the industry, the company, and the products/services of the company. In other words, enchant the interviewer with how much you already know. -- Guy Kawasaki
The biggest daily challenge of social media is finding enough content to share. We call this "feeding the Content Monster." There are two ways to do this: content creation and content curation. -- Guy Kawasaki
If achieving success were easy, more people would do it. -- Guy Kawasaki
If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing, If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing. -- Guy Kawasaki
Every social media post should have a beautiful graphic. If there are two identical stories, the one with the beautiful graphic will always win. -- Guy Kawasaki
Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad. -- Guy Kawasaki
'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists. -- Guy Kawasaki
Accept diversity and don't take any crap. -- Guy Kawasaki
Jolt is for Windows programmers. It's typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh programmers: it goes in yellow and comes out yellow. It's WYSIWYP. -- Guy Kawasaki
Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. -- Guy Kawasaki
Just do what's right for the customer, and you'll be okay. -- Guy Kawasaki
My real mantra for my life is "empower others". -- Guy Kawasaki
Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough. -- Guy Kawasaki
The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it. -- Guy Kawasaki
It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company. -- Guy Kawasaki
Reality is going kick your ass so far that not even Google will find you. The -- Guy Kawasaki
The higher you go in many big companies, the thinner the oxygen; and the thinner the oxygen, the more difficult it is to support intelligent life. Thus, the middles and bottoms of organizations contain most of the intelligence, and intelligence is necessary to appreciate innovative products. -- Guy Kawasaki
There are two kinds of people: eaters and bakers. Eaters think the world is a zero-sum game: what someone else eats, they cannot eat. Bakers do not believe that the world is a zero-sum game because they can bake more and bigger pies. -- Guy Kawasaki
The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers. -- Guy Kawasaki
Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test ... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap. -- Guy Kawasaki
Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting. -- Guy Kawasaki
If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones. -- Guy Kawasaki
Call me idealistic, but the genesis of great companies is answering simple questions that change the world, not the desire to become rich. -- Guy Kawasaki
High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre. -- Guy Kawasaki
Trying to minimize weakness doesn't produce strength. -- Guy Kawasaki
I would consider ... Google Plus a push technology. It's closer to Twitter than to Facebook. -- Guy Kawasaki
You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense. -- Guy Kawasaki
Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails. -- Guy Kawasaki
How fast you are moving is more important than where you are. -- Guy Kawasaki
While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people. -- Guy Kawasaki
I travel all the time. -- Guy Kawasaki
There is no shortcut to awesome. Zoe Winters -- Guy Kawasaki
Sometimes blissful ignorance is awfully empowering -- Guy Kawasaki
Should two founders split the company right down the middle? Answer you're looking for: No, you should allocate 25 percent to future employees and 35 percent to the first two rounds of investments. That leaves 40 percent for the founders to split among themselves. -- Guy Kawasaki
When you've worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. -- Guy Kawasaki
You can extend the life of your most popular blog posts by turning them into SlideShare presentations. Peg -- Guy Kawasaki
Mission statements are long, dull, and forgettable. -- Guy Kawasaki
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes. -- Guy Kawasaki
One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them. -- Guy Kawasaki
There is no such thing as a vanilla term sheet. If term sheets are ice cream, the most common flavor is Rocky Road. -- Guy Kawasaki
Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else. -- Guy Kawasaki
Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had. -- Guy Kawasaki
Entrepreneurship is at its best when it alters the future, and it alters the future when it jumps curves -- Guy Kawasaki
Let yourself be enchanted in small ways. -- Guy Kawasaki
My perspective is this: my allegiance is to the best product for my needs. For a computer, this means Macintosh. For phone and tablet, this means Android. -- Guy Kawasaki
It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company. -- Guy Kawasaki
The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started. -- Guy Kawasaki
Some things need to be believed to be seen. -- Guy Kawasaki
I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind. -- Guy Kawasaki
If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business. -- Guy Kawasaki
Happiness is temporary and fleeting ... Joy is the right goal. -- Guy Kawasaki
A simple summary of my life is that my parents worked very hard so that I could have a great education, and I took that education and worked very hard to get where I am. I would like my kids' lives to be exactly the same. -- Guy Kawasaki
Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws. -- Guy Kawasaki
You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship." -- Guy Kawasaki
Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That's the acid test. -- Guy Kawasaki
Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers). -- Guy Kawasaki
Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing. -- Guy Kawasaki
Entrepreneurship is not for everyone. -- Guy Kawasaki
Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos. -- Guy Kawasaki
Provide good content and you'll earn the right to promote your product. -- Guy Kawasaki
Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future. -- Guy Kawasaki
The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands! -- Guy Kawasaki
Facebook is for people, Twitter is for perspective, Google+ is for passion, LinkedIn is for pimping -- Guy Kawasaki
If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees. -- Guy Kawasaki
Entrepreneurship is about doing, not learning to do. -- Guy Kawasaki
For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible. -- Guy Kawasaki
If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music. -- Guy Kawasaki
I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic. -- Guy Kawasaki
Evangelism is selling a dream. -- Guy Kawasaki
I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need. -- Guy Kawasaki
The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient. -- Guy Kawasaki
I have four kids in a private school who have not yet entered college. Their tuition is what keeps me motivated. Life is simple sometimes. -- Guy Kawasaki
The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That's very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold. -- Guy Kawasaki
Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want. -- Guy Kawasaki
The first 90 percent of a revolution is creating the product or service; the second 90 percent is evangelizing it. At the beginning of a revolution, you need evangelists, not sales, because leverage spreads news. -- Guy Kawasaki
Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them. -- Guy Kawasaki
Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans. -- Guy Kawasaki
I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That's very useful for someone like me. -- Guy Kawasaki
Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment. -- Guy Kawasaki
picked a short, generic, evergreen hashtag: #MotoX. -- Guy Kawasaki
The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together. -- Guy Kawasaki
When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people. -- Guy Kawasaki
My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world. -- Guy Kawasaki
There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars. -- Guy Kawasaki
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. - J. S. Bryan -- Guy Kawasaki
Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc. -- Guy Kawasaki
Leverage your brand. You shouldn't let two guys in a garage eat your shorts. -- Guy Kawasaki
You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing. -- Guy Kawasaki
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them. -- Guy Kawasaki
Suck up with subtlety. -- Guy Kawasaki
