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
crossed figuring great ideas idle investor lots trouble trying
You say: "I have lots of great ideas, but I have trouble figuring out which one to try. Let me tell you about a couple." Investor thinks: "I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.
coming country customs million tend
Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.
leadership succeed failing
Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
nice appreciate people
Just be nice, take genuine interest in the people you meet, and keep in touch with people you like. This will create a group of people who are invested in helping you because they know you and appreciate you.
technology google plus
I would consider...Google Plus a push technology. It's closer to Twitter than to Facebook.
enchanted bigs persons
If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.
enchantment remember
Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.
smart believe thinking
Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I don't believe that anymore-this is not to say that you should strive for a high level of stupidity. My point is that luck is a big part of many successes, so (a) don't get too bummed out when you see a bozo succeed; and (b) luck favors the people who try stuff, not simply think and analyze. As the Chinese say, "One must wait for a long time with your mouth open before a Peking duck flies in your mouth."
diversity accepting crap
Accept diversity and don't take any crap.
delight want should
Companies should always want to delight their customers.
numbers should-have abbreviations
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.
elephants bird poop
Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant
rivers ducks long
You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.
enough-time enough bounds
If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.