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
success player people
Let's say a startup is hot. It ships something great, and it achieves success. Thus, it's able to attract the best, brightest, and most talented. These people have been told they're the best since childhood. Indeed, being hired by the hot company is "proof" that they are the A and A+ players; in fact, the company is so hot that it can out-recruit Google and Microsoft.
success business thinking
Unfortunately, they develop a fixed mindset that they're the most talented, and they think that continued success is a right. Problems arise because pure talent only works as long as the going is easy. Furthermore, they don't take risks because failure would harm their image of being the best, brightest, and most talented. When they do fail, they deny it or attribute it to anything but their shortcomings.
success ends
And this is the beginning of the end.
successful ideas mind
I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.
successful servant-leadership making-money
The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.
successful organization good-business
Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.
successful self entrepreneur
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.
inspirational success organization
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.
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.
companies european trying
Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.
calendar clown fire investor last putting secretary time
You say: "The last time I contacted you, I..." Investor thinks: "I'm going to fire my secretary for putting this clown on my calendar again.
build copy goal investor sell ship talk
You say: "My goal is to build a world-class company." Investor thinks: "How about you ship and sell the first copy before we talk about world-class anything?
investor
You say: "I've always wanted to be an entrepreneur." Investor thinks: "I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?
bright investor lazy relief stupid
You say: "I'm bright and ambitious." Investor thinks: "That's a relief because I usually invest in stupid and lazy people.