Guy Kawasaki
And this is the beginning of the end.Collection: Success
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.Collection: Self
Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.Collection: Writing
What gets me up in the morning is either my daughter crawling into bed or my sons having to go to school. I love my family. They need a certain level of economic resources. They need my time. They need my attention. That's why I do what I do...and don't do what I don't do what I don't do.Collection: Daughter
Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.Collection: Careers
When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.Collection: People
Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That's the acid test.Collection: Mean
Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no good. It can even be done algorithmically. Writing is process-intensive activity.Collection: Book
My real mantra for my life is "empower others".Collection: Real
I don't "need" the rush to be happy. I'd be perfectly happy without the attention and action.Collection: Needs
Someone once said that death is God's way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out.Collection: Work Out
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.Collection: Falling In Love
My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I'm trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists.Collection: Book
Look back to the old days: people bought an MS DOS machine and struggled with it for weeks to bring it up to speed. Then Apple created Macintosh, struggled a bit with it, but eventually succeeded. Then it went into other businesses. If your company truly wants to change the world, it would make these problems go away for customers.Collection: Apples
If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.Collection: Enchanted
Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.Collection: Way
Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.Collection: Ability
You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.Collection: Competition
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?Collection: Meaningful
I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?Collection: Entrepreneur
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.Collection: Success
Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players; B players hire C players; and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to Z players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies.Collection: Jobs
If you use social media right, you will piss people off. It's actually recommended!Collection: Media
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.Collection: Success
The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Change
Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.Collection: People
While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.Collection: Motivational
At the end of my life, I want to say that I made the world a better place because I raised good children, loved my wife, and empowered entrepreneurs. If I do these things, then I can rest knowing that I made the world a better place.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Mba
Social media puts reciprocity on steroids because now you can reach more people in more ways to do more things for them faster and at lower expense. Positive word about your reciprocity can spread faster than ever.Collection: Positive Words
The real question is who will innovate.Collection: Real
Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.Collection: Wise
Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.Collection: Writing
I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.Collection: Successful
There is only one Steve Jobs, but if you want a shot at being the next Steve Jobs, learn to communicate using stories, demos, and pictures.Collection: Jobs
Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.Collection: Believe
The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless--most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.Collection: Educational
The key to evangelism is a great product. It is easy, almost unavoidable, to catalyze evangelism for a great product. It is hard, almost impossible, to catalyze evangelism for crap.Collection: Business
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.Collection: Successful
If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.Collection: Servant Leadership
Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the team but are not autocratic in the realization of this vision. Their eyes are open to whatever results occur-not just planned goals, because serendipity is a great innovator.Collection: Leadership
Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.Collection: Book
The most powerful sign is that your work no longer enchants you - it's not deep, delightful, and mutually satisfying. When this happens, it may be time to look for new challenges.Collection: Powerful
For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section, to move a section, reorganize the section, anything I want to do, I just boot words, and I do what I want to do. So, I feel completely empowered when I'm a writer.Collection: Moving
Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.Collection: Writing
For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.Collection: Writing
Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.Collection: Successful