Quote

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.

Guy Kawasaki

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Guy Kawasaki
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 30
Author
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Evangelism Marketing
Marketing
Merchant
Silicon Valley
Honolulu
Hawaii
Guy Takeo Kawasaki
Going
Mind
Crossed
Make
Idle
Kill
Successful
Idea
Ideas
Trying

More quotes by Guy Kawasaki

Image
Accept diversity and don't take any crap.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Enchantment is the purest form of sales
Guy Kawasaki
Image
An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
The record of what you do is forever recoverable because of Google. The lofty upside and scary downside makes reciprocity more important than ever. This is all good because it makes people think more before they do something that reduces their trustworthiness.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Some things need to be believed to be seen.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing, If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
People who earn the label creative are really just people who come up with more combinations of ideas, find interesting ones faster, and are willing to try them out. The problem is that most schools and organizations train us out of those habits.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
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