Guy Kawasaki Quotes

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.

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.

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

Leverage your brand. You shouldn't let two guys in a garage eat your shorts.

The real question is who will innovate.

If you make meaning, you'll make money.

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.

Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers).

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.

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 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.

Best way to succeed is to do things for the customer, not to the competition. Very few people buy a product in order to help you hurt the competition. To think otherwise is lunacy.

Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

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.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

The goal is to provide inspiring information that moves people to action.

The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas.

Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.

Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal.

Don’t be discouraged by the size of your network – inspire one person and you are doing good.

Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.

If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.

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.

You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

If you use social media right, you will piss people off. It's actually recommended!

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.

Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.

Sales fixes everything.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

Just do what's right for the customer, and you'll be okay.

Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.

Don't get stubborn, flow with the go. The key is to be open to unintended success. Some companies just can't take yes for an answer.

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.

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

You need to earn the right to promote.

This is the beauty of social media: it helps you find people and then you can contact them fast and inexpensively.

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.

An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out.

Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos.

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.

My real mantra for my life is "empower others".