Guy Kawasaki Quotes - Page 6

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.

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

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

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

You need to earn the right to promote.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

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

"No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First, no one else is doing this because there is no market for it. Second, the entrepreneur is so clueless that he can't even use Google to figure out he has competition. Suffice it to say that the lack of a market and cluelessness is not conducive to securing an investment. As a rule of thumb, if you have a good idea, five companies are going the same thing. If you have a great idea, fifteen companies are doing the same thing.

Enchantment can be done with writing but I think enchantment is basically a prospective or an operating system for life. That you can enchant a person who is assigning your airplane seat, your hotel room, your waiter, your waitress.

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.

Klout and various measurements of influence are fun. I love to see where I score on them, but there's a computer algorithm behind the calculation. If there's an algorithm, it can be gamed. Even if it's not gameable, you have to take a leap of faith that the number of followers, retweets, mentions, whatever really mean something.

Most of my life is over. I am going to enjoy my family and friends before any of us depart this earth. I'll never start another company. I'll never work long hours again. At this point in my life, I only answer to God, my wife, and my kids. Everything else is secondary - especially the expectations of strangers.

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

To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed the second coming

The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I've never had the same reaction to a product, not in 25 years.

It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.

Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment. And in this world, the combination is a breath of fresh air.

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

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.

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

And this is the beginning of the end.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

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

When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.