02.26.06
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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
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Guy Kawasaki Quotes - Hindsights by Guy Kawasaki
Remember these ten things: if just one of them helps you helps just one of you, this speech will have been a success:
#10: Live off your parents as long as possible.
#9: Pursue joy, not happiness.
#8: Challenge the known and embrace the unknown.
#7: Learn to speak a foreign language, play a musical instrument, and play non-contact sports.
#6: Continue to learn.
#5: Learn to like yourself or change yourself until you can like yourself. #4: Don’t get married too soon.
#3: Play to win and win to play.
#2: Obey the absolutes.
#1: Enjoy your family and friends before they are gone.
- Guy Kawasaki
Yes, he really did give this speech:
Guy Kawasaki: Hindsights
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02.25.06
Posted in Famous People Quotes, Famous Quotes, Guy Kawasaki Quotes, Money Quotes, Quotes Central, Sales Quotes at 3:04 pm by Administrator
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Guy Kawasaki - The Art of Rainmaking
Guy Kawasaki says that “you either make it rain or you don’t.”
Guy Kawasaki - The Art of Rainmaking
” Sales fixes everything.
As long as you have sales, cash will flow, and as long as cash flows, (a) you will have the time to fix your team, your technology, and your marketing; (b) the press won’t be able to say much because customers are pouring money into your coffers; and (c) your investors will leave you alone because (i) they will focus on companies with weaker sales and (ii) they won’t want to jinx your success. ”
- Guy Kawasaki
Many companies freak out when unintended customers buy their product. Many companies also freak out when intended customers buy their product but use it in unintended ways. Don’t be proud. Take the money.
- Guy Kawasaki
For selling to work, you need face-to-face, personalized, and intense contact. Advertising can’t do this, so for most organizations the best lead-generation methods are seminars, presentations by company executives, and schmoozing. With a little luck and determination, you may wake up one day to find that you no longer need to sell because your product is being bought.
- Guy Kawasaki
… ask people at the company to answer this simple question, “When there are problems, who does everyone go to at this organization?”
- Guy Kawasaki
When it comes to rainmaking, there’s clearly a reason why God gave us two ears but only one mouth.
- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki - The Art of Rainmaking
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Guy Kawasaki Quotes - How to Suck Up to a Blogger
Some worthwhile quotations from Guy Kawasaki, CEO of Garage Technology Ventures (garage.com), a venture capital firm specializing in high-technology startups. From his Blog post “How to Suck Up to a Blogger.”
“Linking is the sincerest form of flattery.”
- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki Quotes - How to Suck Up to a Blogger
” … you should never, ever lie to a blogger. If you screw up, admit it. … ”
- Guy Kawasaki
“Blogging has flipped traditional PR on its head. It used to be that ink begat buzz. Life was simple then: you sucked up to the Wall Street Journal, one of its reporters wrote about your product, and the buzz began.”
- Guy Kawasaki
“Make connections before you need them. Mediocre marketers try to befriend bloggers when they need them. Good marketers befriend bloggers before they need them. Great marketers have befriended bloggers while they were working at their previous companies.”
- Guy Kawasaki
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