Quotes from Guy Kawasaki

not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

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The greater the difficulty of the change, the greater the need for enchantment. Factors that cause friction include expense, risk, and "politics." If a change is a big deal, then it's a big deal to make it happen.

If you think that leadership is deciding what you want and telling people to do it, I feel sorry for you. Reality is going kick your ass so far that not even Google will find you. The goal of this chapter is to help you become such a great leader that you'll appear on the first page of a Google search for "leader.

Entrepreneurship is about doing, not learning to do.

Sometimes blissful ignorance is awfully empowering

The biggest daily challenge of social media is finding enough content to share. We call this "feeding the Content Monster." There are two ways to do this: content creation and content curation.

If you make meaning, you'll probably also make money.

ÇoÄŸu giriÅŸimci, yaln?zca pirinç ve soya sosu ile beslenir ve bir yandan da iÄŸneyle kuyu kazarcas?na kendi iÅŸini kurar.

La gente confía en ti cuando estás informado, eres competente, piensas en grande y creas situaciones de valor seguro.

If you can't describe your business model in ten words or fewer, you don't have a business model.

As writers and teachers we most often don't invent the truths, we experience them and share them, giving our audience the advantage of "discovering" these insights for themselves. There is some brilliance to regularly reinventing the wheel in order to better understand ourselves – not wheels.

You should always be selling—not strategizing about selling. Don't test, test, test—that's a game for big companies. Don't worry about being embarrassed. Don't wait to develop the perfect product or service. Good enough is good enough. There will be plenty of time for refinement later. It's not how great you start—it's how great you end up.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose. —Ludwig van Beethoven

Mission statements are long, dull, and forgettable.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than smart.

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.

when people believe in your product, they will help you succeed through credible, continuous, and cost-effective proselytization.

The genesis of great companies is answering simple questions that change the world, not the desire to become rich.

success may take a long time, so you'd better at least not hate what you're doing.

are two kinds of people: eaters and bakers. Eaters think the world is a zero-sum game: what you eat, someone else cannot eat, so they eat as much as they can. Bakers think that the world is not a zero-sum game—they can just bake more and bigger pies. Everyone can eat more. People trust bakers and not eaters.

The shortest mantra is the single Hindi word "Om.")

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

if you're not pissing someone off on social media, you're not using it aggressively enough.