Quotes from Guy Kawasaki

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.

Hockey is the only thing that I'm not good at that I love.

There are two ways to approach the application process: trying to hit a home run by getting an immediate 'Yes, here's an offer' or trying not to be eliminated. I recommend the second approach.

Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.

As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product.

My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It's Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it.

The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

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.

Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.

Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

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.

Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails.

If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.

The most important thing is that you hire people who complement you and are better than you in specific areas. Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players.

It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.

The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

I travel all the time.

The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.