Quote

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

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
Entrepreneurship
Essence
Learning

More quotes by Guy Kawasaki

Image
If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section, to move a section, reorganize the section, anything I want to do, I just boot words, and I do what I want to do. So, I feel completely empowered when I'm a writer.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
The most powerful sign is that your work no longer enchants you - it's not deep, delightful, and mutually satisfying. When this happens, it may be time to look for new challenges.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
You need to earn the right to promote.
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
The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That’s very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Hockey is the only thing that I'm not good at that I love.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no good. It can even be done algorithmically. Writing is process-intensive activity.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Enchantment is the purest form of sales
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Sales fixes everything.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Accept diversity and don't take any crap.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Enchantment can be done with writing but I think enchantment is basically a prospective or an operating system for life. That you can enchant a person who is assigning your airplane seat, your hotel room, your waiter, your waitress.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That's the acid test.
Guy Kawasaki
Image
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
Guy Kawasaki