Guy Kawasaki Quotes - Page 2

Everyone is passionate about something. It's your job to find out what it is.

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.

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.

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

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.

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.

The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing.

Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.

High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.

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

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

Don't ask people to do something you wouldn't.

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.

If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.

When you're a good person, good things happen to you. You shouldn't be a good person with the expectation of therefore deserving good things, but in its purest form, I believe when you do good, good comes back to you.

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

Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

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."

You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

Companies should always want to delight their customers.

Accept diversity and don't take any crap.

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

• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.