Quotes from Guy Kawasaki

A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You'll know that you're likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.

While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are." —Halford E. Luccock

Everyone is better than you at something. If you have a tough time accepting others, it's probably because you think you're superior to them. However, you're not superior to every person in every way.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

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.

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question "Why should I buy this book?

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. MARK TWAIN

Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.

Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal world, a startup would never have to seek funds at all.

I've been all over the world meeting with companies and startups and entrepreneurs. And I tell you, they are more similar than different.

It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence.

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

I don't think Steve Jobs nauseated people when talking about how great Apple stuff was. The reason why he didn't nauseate people is because it was true. The start of all great marketing is to have a great product.

People are forgiving of v 1.0 of a product if it's truly innovative and useful. Then you can get away with a lot. But if you're merely marginally improving the status quo, then you better be rock solid.

Many Android users aren't aware of some the things that Android can already do such as supporting the enforcement of companywide security policies, encrypting phone data and providing e-mail and calendar widgets that update in real-time. Our job is to help people and businesses discover and use these features.

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn. The key is the 10/20/30 rule: 10 slides given in 20 minutes using no font smaller than 30 points. If people just adhered to this rule, they would double or triple the quality of their presentations.

If you provide enough value, then you earn the right to promote your company in order to recruit new customers. The key is to always provide value.

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

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.

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.