Petosevic Kawasaki Quotes

Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place. ~ Guy Kawasaki

My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I'm trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable. ~ Guy Kawasaki

His idea is to get your team together and pretend that your product has failed. That's right: failed, cratered, imploded, or "went aloha oe," as we say in Hawaii. You ask the team to come up with all the reasons why the failure occurred. Then each member has to state one reason until every reason is on a list. The next step is to figure out ways to prevent every reason from occurring. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Entrepreneurship is at its best when it alters the future, and it alters the future when it jumps curves ~ Guy Kawasaki

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

Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you've gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and discoveries with your fellow employees and occasionally even with your competitors. ~ Guy Kawasaki

To the extent that we are trapped by the overvaluing, idealizing tendency, we are not free fully to celebrate the limited but real goods of creation. Idolatry by definition is not an accurate assessment of creaturely goods, but an overvaluing of them so as to miss the richness of their actual, limited values. If I worship my tennis trophies, my Mondrian, my family tree, my Kawasaki, or my bank account, then I do not really receive those goods for what they actually are - limited, historical, and finite - goods which are vulnerable to being taken away by time and death. When I pretend that a value is something more than it is, ironically I value it less appropriately than it deserves. Biblical psychology invites us to relate ourselves absolutely to the absolute and relatively to the relative. ~ Thomas C. Oden

A simple summary of my life is that my parents worked very hard so that I could have a great education, and I took that education and worked very hard to get where I am. I would like my kids' lives to be exactly the same. ~ Guy Kawasaki

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

The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands! ~ Guy Kawasaki

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~ Guy Kawasaki

One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them. ~ Guy Kawasaki

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

The goal is to provide inspiring information that moves people to action. ~ Guy Kawasaki

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

The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started. ~ Guy Kawasaki

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

The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas. ~ Guy Kawasaki

"Patents make our product defensible." The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once, say, "We have filed patents for what we are doing." Done. The second time you say it, venture capitalists begin to suspect that you are depending too much on patents for defensibility. The third time you say it, you are holding a sign above your head that says, "I am clueless." ~ Guy Kawasaki

Should two founders split the company right down the middle? Answer you're looking for: No, you should allocate 25 percent to future employees and 35 percent to the first two rounds of investments. That leaves 40 percent for the founders to split among themselves. ~ Guy Kawasaki

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. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Remember that you are influencing people who are watching you. ~ Guy Kawasaki

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

Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies. ~ Guy Kawasaki

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people's lives. ~ Guy Kawasaki

It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Let yourself be enchanted in small ways. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Writing is one way to achieve enchantment. ~ Guy Kawasaki

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

The way I hold the club, I've got my hand way over, like I'm driving a motorcycle. My Kawasaki grip. ~ Pete Sampras

Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki, "The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together. Evangelism ~ Carmine Gallo

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

I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them. ~ Guy Kawasaki

The higher you go in many big companies, the thinner the oxygen; and the thinner the oxygen, the more difficult it is to support intelligent life. Thus, the middles and bottoms of organizations contain most of the intelligence, and intelligence is necessary to appreciate innovative products. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else. ~ Guy Kawasaki

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

There is no such thing as a vanilla term sheet. If term sheets are ice cream, the most common flavor is Rocky Road. ~ Guy Kawasaki

I don't "need" the rush to be happy. I'd be perfectly happy without the attention and action. ~ 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 - they have the right to expect that it's the person's writing, not cleaned-up dictation or slapping a name on a book that someone else wrote. ~ Guy Kawasaki

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 ~ Guy Kawasaki

My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It's Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free! ~ 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

I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Enchantment is the purest form of sales. Enchantment is all about changing people's hearts, minds and actions because you provide them a vision or a way to do things better. The difference between enchantment and simple sales is that with enchantment you have the other person's best interests at heart, too. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Skillful pitching ... is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of raising capital. More important are the realities of your organization: Are you building something meaningful, long lasting, and valuable to society? ~ Guy Kawasaki

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