A collection of quotes and thoughts by Guy Kawasaki on social-media, motorcycle, books, marketing, life, talent, business, simple, care, art, patience and hard-work.
44 Insightful Quotes By Guy Kawasaki That Help In Business & Life Management
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Entrepreneur, Businessperson, Merchant, Author, Marketing
Guy Kawasaki is a distinguished American author, entrepreneur, Silicon Valley capitalist and marketing specialist. In 1984, he worked for ‘Apple’ and was entrusted with the responsibility of marketing their Macintosh computer line. He is accredited with popularizing the word ‘evangelist’ while marketing the Macintosh computer. He is also renowned for the concepts of technology evangelism and evangelism marketing. He was also the part of ‘Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees’, a non-profit operating organization of Wikipedia. He has also expressed his thoughts, views and opinions on subjects close to his heart through his books which include ‘Database 101’ and ‘The Art of Social Media’. Following is a corpus of thoughts and quotable quotes by one of the most prominent sales experts which have been excerpted from his interviews, lectures, writings, books, work, life and public utterances. Read through the quotations and sayings by Guy Kawasaki.
If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.
Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.
Guy Kawasaki
While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.
Guy Kawasaki
Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.
Guy Kawasaki
Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.
Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.
Guy Kawasaki
Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).
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.
Inertia. Guy’s law of enchantment: “People at rest will remain at rest, and people in motion will keep moving in the same direction unless an outside enchanter acts upon them.
Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.
From the outside looking in, trying to decipher Google’s search algorithms is like reading tea leaves in a toilet bowl…as it’s flushing. With the lights off.
The biggest daily challenge of social media is finding enough content to share. We call this “feeding the Content Monster.” There are two ways to do this: content creation and content curation.
Guy Kawasaki
If you think that leadership is deciding what you want and telling people to do it, I feel sorry for you. Reality is going kick your ass so far that not even Google will find you.
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