Words matter. These are the best Guy Kawasaki Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I don’t take myself that seriously. I’m a pragmatist.
I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.
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.
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.
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.
If you make money, you might not make meaning.
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
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.
I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That’s very useful for someone like me.
I’ve been all over the world meeting with companies and startups and entrepreneurs. And I tell you, they are more similar than different.
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.
I started my career counting diamonds and schlepping gold jewelry around the world. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.’
If you’re an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It’s a skill that you learn.
Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.
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.
I’m a lousy predictor of the future.
I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It’s a skill that you learn. The key is the 10/20/30 rule: 10 slides given in 20 minutes using no font smaller than 30 points. If people just adhered to this rule, they would double or triple the quality of their presentations.
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That’s the secret of my life.
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.
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.
Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.
Every social media post should have a beautiful graphic. If there are two identical stories, the one with the beautiful graphic will always win.
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.
