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
enchantment form best-interests-at-heart
Enchantment is the purest form of sales
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.
dangerous
Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos.
book writing people
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.
making-money ifs
If you make meaning, you'll make money.
people mind stuff
At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.
needs
You need to earn the right to promote.
skills succeed fortune
It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.
writing enemy good-writing
Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.
change thinking order
Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules.
book kids editors
An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better.
real empowering life-is
My real mantra for my life is "empower others".
meaningful reality organization
Skillful pitching... is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of raising capital. More important are the realities of your organization: Are you building something meaningful, long lasting, and valuable to society?
team passion people
Great teams are usually small-under fifty in total head count. (There are few examples of a team made up of hundreds of people who created anything revolutionary.) Big teams aren't conducive to revolutionary products because such products require a high degree of single-mindedness, unity, and unreasonable passion.