Guy Kawasaki Quotes: Guy Takeo Kawasaki, also known as Guy Kawaski is one of the most acclaimed American marketing specialists and a Venture capitalist in silicon valley. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a multi-talented father, he completed his graduation from Stanford University in 1976 with a Bachelor of arts degree in psychology and went on to earn an MBA degree from Anderson school of management. Guy Kawasaki did jobs in various industry verticals like Jewelry, chief evangelist at Apple, ACIUS as the main lead, and joined Google as an advisor to Motorola, Canva, Penguin group, Wikimedia group, and the list is endless. His Bibliography list is also humongous but some of the most noteworthy works are The Art of the Start, The Macintosh Way, and Wise Guy: Lessons from a life are best-selling books.
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Guy Kawasaki Quotes
Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. » Guy Kawasaki
Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad. » Guy Kawasaki
If you don’t toot your own horn, don’t complain that there’s no music. » Guy Kawasaki
Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting. » Guy Kawasaki
The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives. » Guy Kawasaki
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE. » Guy Kawasaki
You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing — grinding, buffing, and polishing — not writing. » Guy Kawasaki
Organizations are successful because of good implementation, not good business plans. » Guy Kawasaki
Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies. » Guy Kawasaki
Let yourself be enchanted in small ways. » Guy Kawasaki
Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across. » Guy Kawasaki
A New Brand World: Eight Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the Twenty-First Century. » 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
Don’t stop paying attention to a project because it gets boring. » 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
Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos. » 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
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
If achieving success were easy, more people would do it. » Guy Kawasaki
If you make meaning, you’ll probably also make money. » 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
You have to sit by the river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth. » 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
The next time there’s something that you can’t live without, wait for a week and then see if you’re still alive. » Guy Kawasaki
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. » Guy Kawasaki,
What’s more important than making a startup attractive to investors in a beauty-contest format is to make them viable in real life. » Guy Kawasaki
Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave. —Constantine Brancusi. » Guy Kawasaki
Words are the facial expressions of your mind: They communicate your attitude, personality, and perspective. » Guy Kawasaki
The purpose of a pitch is to stimulate interest, not to close a deal. » Guy Kawasaki
The upside of paying it forward far outweighs the downside of being exploited. » Guy Kawasaki
Entrepreneurship is at its best when it alters the future, and it alters the future when it jumps curves. » Guy Kawasaki
If you can’t describe your business model in ten words or fewer, you don’t have a business model. » Guy Kawasaki
Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than smart. » Guy Kawasaki
The purpose of most keynotes is to entertain and inform the audience. It is seldom intended to provide an opportunity to pitch your product. » 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
Investors are looking for people who can implement ideas, not only come up with them. » Guy Kawasaki
If you’re not pissing someone off on social media, you’re not using it aggressively enough. » Guy Kawasaki
An economic depression or a pandemic could occur. You never know. . . . » Guy Kawasaki
You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing—grinding, buffing, and polishing—not writing. » Guy Kawasaki
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a prototype is worth ten thousand slides. » Guy Kawasaki
Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates. » Guy Kawasaki
Learning by anecdote is risky, but waiting for scientific proof is too. » Guy Kawasaki
Not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. » 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
Remember that you are influencing people who are watching you. » Guy Kawasaki
Mission statements are long, dull, and forgettable. » 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
Resharing is caring! » Guy Kawasaki
Entrepreneurship is about doing, not learning to do. » Guy Kawasaki
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. » Guy Kawasaki
Reality is going kick your ass so far that not even Google will find you. » Guy Kawasaki
The genesis of great companies is answering simple questions that change the world, not the desire to become rich. » Guy Kawasaki
Sometimes blissful ignorance is awfully empowering. » Guy Kawasaki
Success may take a long time, so you’d better at least not hate what you’re doing. » 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
Life is too short to deal with orifices. » Guy Kawasaki
Bootstrapping goes awry when entrepreneurs focus on saving pennies to the detriment of the Big Picture. » Guy Kawasaki
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. » 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 very few people who don’t become more interesting when they stop talking. » 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