Quotes from Guy Kawasaki

La dificultad no está en las nuevas ideas, sino en superar las antiguas que, para todos los que hemos sido educados como la mayoría, se ramifican hacia cada rincón de nuestra mente.» John Maynard Keynes

You have to sit by the river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

The next time there's something that you can't live without, wait for a week and then see if you're still alive.

What's more important than making a startup attractive to investors in a beauty-contest format is to make them viable in real life.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. Benjamin Disraeli

According to Celtic myths, there were once magical vessels that "satisfied the tastes and needs of all who ate and drank from them."* These myths led to the legend of the Holy Grail. The modern-day equivalent of the Holy Grail is the business plan.

Content curation involves finding other people's good stuff, summarizing it, and sharing it. Curation is a win-win-win: you need content to share; blogs and websites need more traffic; and people need filters to reduce the flow of information.

Words are the facial expressions of your mind: They communicate your attitude, personality, and perspective.

Geras pašnekovas pats daug nekalba, bet sugeba prakalbinti kitus. Taigi, pokalbio meistrai yra ne tie, kurie moka kalb?ti, o tie, kurie moka klausyti.

Promete poco, cumple mucho

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one." C. S. Lewis

Smart writers understand that writing is also a business. Really smart writers see themselves also as entrepreneurs. Barry Eisler

Cuanto más altas sean tus metas, más necesidad tendrás de cambiar los corazones, las mentalidades y las acciones de la gente.

Your job is to find venture capitalists who make early bets on unproven startups.

electronic realities of publishing. O'Reilly Media is one example. Let's take a look at its approach to publishing:

The upside of paying it forward far outweighs the downside of being exploited.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough. MEISTER ECKHART

an editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself—a good editor will make your book better.

Complete this sentence: If your startup never existed, the world would be worse off because __________.

The purpose of most keynotes is to entertain and inform the audience. It is seldom intended to provide an opportunity to pitch your product.

Antes de la segunda guerra mundial la vida era sencilla. Después ya teníamos sistemas.» Grace Hopper

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. —English proverb

Investors are looking for people who can implement ideas, not only come up with them.

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? GEORGE ORWELL, "POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE