Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasakiis an American marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing their Macintosh computer line in 1984. He popularized the word evangelist in marketing the Macintosh and the concepts of evangelism marketing and technology evangelism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth30 August 1954
CountryUnited States of America
falling-in-love book writing
You know you're ready to write a book when you have a feeling that you should do it, no matter what anybody says. It's like falling in love or starting a company. When you're still wondering if you should get married or you're still wondering whether you should start a company that might be not the right person or the right idea. And writing is the same way. When you've locked on to the topic, you'll just write it.
enchantment complaining horns
If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.
making-money ifs
If you make meaning, you'll make money.
okay customers
Just do what's right for the customer, and you'll be okay.
mba careers banking
An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.
roots making-money great-company
The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.
hard-work sacrifice goal
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.
enchantment form best-interests-at-heart
Enchantment is the purest form of sales
leadership people management
When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.
servant-leadership kind making-money
If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.
leadership thinking revolutionary-leaders
Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.
entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.
crash program competitors
A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.