If you provide enough value, then you earn the right to promote your company in order to recruit new customers. The key is to always provide value. – Guy Kawasaki
I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family. – 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
A crash is when your competitor’s program dies. When your program dies, it is an ‘idiosyncrasy’. – Guy Kawasaki
Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make. – Guy Kawasaki
A large social-media presence is important because it’s one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears. – Guy Kawasaki
I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It’s a skill that you learn. – Guy Kawasaki
Most venture capitalists won’t read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact. – Guy Kawasaki
Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc. – Guy Kawasaki
It’s easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate. – Guy Kawasaki
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent. – Guy Kawasaki
The most important thing is that you hire people who complement you and are better than you in specific areas. Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. – Guy Kawasaki
Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws. – Guy Kawasaki
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world… not make a fast buck. – Guy Kawasaki
If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number. – Guy Kawasaki
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
The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands! – Guy Kawasaki
My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It’s Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don’t need to trick it. – Guy Kawasaki
People are forgiving of v 1.0 of a product if it’s truly innovative and useful. Then you can get away with a lot. But if you’re merely marginally improving the status quo, then you better be rock solid. – Guy Kawasaki
