Quotes by Guy Kawasaki

“While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.”

“Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.”

“Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.”

“A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. Youll know that youre likeable when you can comm...”

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

“Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.”

“The wisest course of action is to take your best shot with a prototype, immediately get it to market, and iterate quickly. If you wait for ideal circumstances in which you have all the information ...”

“Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isnt easy, but its fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.”

“A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneuror APE.”

“Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon thats one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).”

“Writingis therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time.The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, andwriting some more can help you co...”

“I have a hardcore attitude: a self-published, ghost-written book is wrong because the concept behind self publishing is that you have knowledge or emotions that you want to express. Whenpeople read...”

“ People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesnt have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Dont judge ...”

“Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.”

“The beauty of Goodreads is that you know youre sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.”

“Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.”

“Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore... but an entrepren...”

“As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the wo...”

“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.”

“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”