Shonosuke Kawasaki Quotes

Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad. ~ Guy Kawasaki

There are two ways to approach the application process: trying to hit a home run by getting an immediate 'Yes, here's an offer' or trying not to be eliminated. I recommend the second approach. ~ 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

Good enough is good enough. There is time for refinement later. It's not how great you start - it's how great you end up. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Don't ask people to do something you wouldn't. ~ Guy Kawasaki

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are. ~ Guy Kawasaki

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

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent. ~ 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, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.' ~ 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

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

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

You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing - grinding, buffing, and polishing - not writing. ~ Guy Kawasaki

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

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

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose. - Ludwig van Beethoven ~ Guy Kawasaki

Yes, Jobs could be overbearing. But as Guy Kawasaki (who worked for Steve Jobs twice) put it: If you ask an employee of Apple why they put up with the challenges of working there, they will tell you: because Apple enables you to do the best work of your career. ~ Anonymous

Trying to minimize weakness doesn't produce strength. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails. ~ 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

Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Greatness is won, not awarded. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Bootstrapping goes awry when entrepreneurs focus on saving pennies to the detriment of the Big Picture. ~ Guy Kawasaki

A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You'll know that you're likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people. ~ Guy Kawasaki

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

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. ~ 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

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

Sometimes blissful ignorance is awfully empowering ~ Guy Kawasaki

Writing is one way to achieve enchantment. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore ... but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is. ~ Guy Kawasaki