Guy Kawasaki Quotes

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

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• Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

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• You know, if you’re Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: ‘I could have done that in half an hour, and it’s been done before. What’s the big deal? I expected something more from him.’ Meanwhile, they didn’t do it, right? They’re still living at home with their mothers.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.’

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

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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.

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• The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they’re not making it.

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• Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

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• 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.

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• Not many people agree with what I do.

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

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• 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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• 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.

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

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• If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.

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• If you make money, you might not make meaning.

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

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• I’m a lousy predictor of the future.

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Birth:	30th August, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Entrepreneur

About

Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. Formerly, he was an advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google and chief evangelist of Apple. He is also the author of APE, What the Plus!, Enchantment, and nine other books. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

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