Guy Kawasaki Quotes
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.
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.
Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.
Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.
In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule....use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
Facebook is for people, Twitter is for perspective, Google+ is for passion, LinkedIn is for pimping
Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.
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.
I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.
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.
The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult.
There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.
One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.
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.
Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.
While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
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.
You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."
High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.
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.
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.
If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.
If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.
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.
A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.
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.
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.
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.
