Guy Kawasaki Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Real, School, Thinking

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• Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Should Have, Numbers, Abbreviations

  Guy Kawasaki (1990). “The Macintosh Way”, HarperCollins

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• For startups, SM is now crucial: it has never been cheaper and easier to reach one's customers. Entrepreneurs should thank God for Twitter, Facebook.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Entrepreneur, Thank God, Sms

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• Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Business, Revolutionary, Failing

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• Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Essence, Entrepreneurship

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• The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Self, Patient, Foolish

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• It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Skills, Succeed, Fortune

  "Interview with Guy Kawasaki | Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Author (Enchantment)". Interview with Sameer Kamat, www.mbacrystalball.com. June 26, 2011.

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• Don't get stubborn, flow with the go. The key is to be open to unintended success. Some companies just can't take yes for an answer.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Keys, Stubborn, Answers

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Just do what's right for the customer, and you'll be okay.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Okay, Customers

  "Interview with Guy Kawasaki | Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Author (Enchantment)". Interview with Sameer Kamat, www.mbacrystalball.com. June 26, 2011.

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• The record of what you do is forever recoverable because of Google. The lofty upside and scary downside makes reciprocity more important than ever. This is all good because it makes people think more before they do something that reduces their trustworthiness.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Thinking, People, Scary

  "Interview: Guy Kawasaki on Reciprocity, Influencers, Ecosystems and the Art of Enchantment". Interview with Ian Greenleigh, www.business2community.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Vision, Want, Company

  "Interview with Guy Kawasaki | Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Author (Enchantment)". Interview with Sameer Kamat, www.mbacrystalball.com. June 26, 2011.

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• There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.mbacrystalball.com

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

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  Europe, Ideas, Trying

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• Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

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  Entrepreneurship

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• You need to earn the right to promote.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Needs

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• "No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First, no one else is doing this because there is no market for it. Second, the entrepreneur is so clueless that he can't even use Google to figure out he has competition. Suffice it to say that the lack of a market and cluelessness is not conducive to securing an investment. As a rule of thumb, if you have a good idea, five companies are going the same thing. If you have a great idea, fifteen companies are doing the same thing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Lying, Clueless, Ideas

  Guy Kawasaki (2008). “Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition”, p.48, Penguin

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

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  Google, Marketing, Blogging

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• Enchantment can be done with writing but I think enchantment is basically a prospective or an operating system for life. That you can enchant a person who is assigning your airplane seat, your hotel room, your waiter, your waitress.

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  Writing, Airplane, Thinking

  "Guy Kawasaki Interview on His Latest Book - APE". Interview with helen Nesterenko, writtent.com. January 11, 2013.

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• People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.

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  Clouds, Data, Two

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• Klout and various measurements of influence are fun. I love to see where I score on them, but there's a computer algorithm behind the calculation. If there's an algorithm, it can be gamed. Even if it's not gameable, you have to take a leap of faith that the number of followers, retweets, mentions, whatever really mean something.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Fun, Mean, Numbers

  "Interview: Guy Kawasaki on reciprocity, influencers, ecosystems and the art of enchantment". Bazaarvoice blog Interview, blog.bazaarvoice.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Most of my life is over. I am going to enjoy my family and friends before any of us depart this earth. I'll never start another company. I'll never work long hours again. At this point in my life, I only answer to God, my wife, and my kids. Everything else is secondary - especially the expectations of strangers.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Kids, Long, Expectations

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• This is the beauty of social media: it helps you find people and then you can contact them fast and inexpensively.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Media, People, Helping

  "Interview: Guy Kawasaki on Reciprocity, Influencers, Ecosystems and the Art of Enchantment". Interview with Ian Greenleigh, www.business2community.com. March 17, 2011.

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• It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.

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  Growth, Business Growth, Valuable

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• When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Opportunity, Done, Doorways

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• 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

  Jesus, Thinking, Shapes

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