02.26.06
Guy Kawasaki Quotes
Guy Kawasaki Quotes
A crash is when your competitor’s program dies. When your program dies, it is an ‘idiosyncrasy’.
- Guy Kawasaki
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world … not make a fast buck. Call me a romantic, but I think entrepreneurs should try to change the world.
- Guy Kawasaki
Evangelism is selling a dream.
- Guy Kawasaki
Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like ‘ID 02′. ‘ID’ is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.
- Guy Kawasaki
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.
- Guy Kawasaki
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.
- Guy Kawasaki
Don’t worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test… Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.
- Guy Kawasaki
