Guy Kawasaki quotes
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“Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.”
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“Greatness is won, not awarded.”
-- Guy KawasakiSource : Guy Kawasaki (2011). “How to Drive Your Competition Crazy: Creating Disruption for Fun and Profit”, p.12, Hachette UK
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“There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.”
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“How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.”
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“Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.”
-- Guy KawasakiSource : FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Nov 02, 2013
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“Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I don't believe that anymore-this is not to say that you should strive for a high level of stupidity. My point is that luck is a big part of many successes, so (a) don't get too bummed out when you see a bozo succeed; and (b) luck favors the people who try stuff, not simply think and analyze. As the Chinese say, "One must wait for a long time with your mouth open before a Peking duck flies in your mouth."”
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“Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.”
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“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 KawasakiSource : FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Jan 14, 2013
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“Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.”
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“While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.”
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“The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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 KawasakiSource : FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from May 09, 2014
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“Provide good content and you’ll earn the right to promote your product.”
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“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.”
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“Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.”
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“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.”
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“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
-- Guy KawasakiSource : Guy Kawasaki (2015). “The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything”, p.116, Penguin
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“Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.”
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“Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.”
-- Guy KawasakiSource : "Guy Kawasaki: No 'Secret Sauce' for Tech Success". Interview with Jason Fell, www.entrepreneur.com. June 1, 2012.
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“Some things need to be believed to be seen.”
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“Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.”
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“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.”
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“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”
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“The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult.”
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“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.”
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“In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule....use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.”
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“The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it.”
-- Guy KawasakiSource : "Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. March 20, 2010.
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“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.”
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“Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.”
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“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 KawasakiSource : George Cooper Stevens, John Mason Brown (1974). “Speak for yourself, John: the life of John Mason Brown, with some of his letters and many of his opinions”, Viking Adult
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“A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing,”
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“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.”
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“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.”
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“The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.”
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“Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.”
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