Quotes by Guy Kawasaki

About Guy Kawasaki:

Guy Kawasaki is a Silicon Valley marketing executive. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984. He popularized the word evangelist in marketing the Macintosh and the concepts of evangelism marketing and technology evangelism.
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If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

Guy Kawasaki

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.

Guy Kawasaki

• 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...

Guy Kawasaki

Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.

Guy Kawasaki

While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

Guy Kawasaki

Inertia. Guy’s law of enchantment: “People at rest will remain at rest, and people in motion will keep moving in the same direction unless an outside enchanter acts upon them.

Guy Kawasaki

Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.

Guy Kawasaki

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Guy Kawasaki

Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.

Guy Kawasaki

The wisest course of action is to take your best shot with a prototype, immediately get it to market, and iterate quickly. If you wait for ideal circumstances in which you have all the information you need (which is impossible), the market will pass ...

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Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

Guy Kawasaki

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

Guy Kawasaki

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.

Guy Kawasaki

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

Guy Kawasaki

I have a hardcore attitude: a “self-published, ghost-written book” is wrong because the concept behind self publishing is that you have knowledge or emotions that you want to express. When people read a book—particularly a self-published one—...

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Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.

Guy Kawasaki

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

Guy Kawasaki

Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).

Guy Kawasaki

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

Guy Kawasaki

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

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Author Bio

  • NameGuy Kawasaki
  • DescriptionAmerican businessman
  • BornAugust 30, 1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur; Businessperson