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

Guy Kawasaki

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

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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.

Guy Kawasaki

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

Guy Kawasaki

Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

Guy Kawasaki

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

Guy Kawasaki

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.

Guy Kawasaki

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.

Guy Kawasaki

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Guy Kawasaki

Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

Guy Kawasaki

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

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I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

Guy Kawasaki

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

Guy Kawasaki

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.'

Guy Kawasaki

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.

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When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

Guy Kawasaki

What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, ...

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A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.

Guy Kawasaki

Evangelism is selling a dream.

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Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

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

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Author Bio

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