Guy Kawasaki Quotes

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Guy Kawasaki

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 30, 1954

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

Guy Kawasaki

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

Guy Kawasaki

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

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

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

Guy Kawasaki

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

Guy Kawasaki

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

Guy Kawasaki

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

Guy Kawasaki

A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears.

Guy Kawasaki

Evangelism is selling a dream.

Guy Kawasaki

It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.

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I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

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

When I was getting my education, I fell in love with the writings of Peter Drucker. He was my hero. I had a naive belief that when I became a manager, it was going to be like Peter Drucker's books. That is, I was going to be the effective executive. I was going to talk to people about their goals. I was going to help them actualize.

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

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

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

I don't think Steve Jobs nauseated people when talking about how great Apple stuff was. The reason why he didn't nauseate people is because it was true. The start of all great marketing is to have a great product.

Guy Kawasaki

Every social media post should have a beautiful graphic. If there are two identical stories, the one with the beautiful graphic will always win.

Guy Kawasaki

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

Guy Kawasaki