Quotes by Guy Kawasaki

“Dont 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.”

“A crash is when your competitors program dies. When your program dies, it is an idiosyncrasy.”

“Evangelism is selling a dream.”

“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”

“Its the figuring out who it is.”

“Yes, but hes back again, ... As a company grows larger and larger it will have to bring in different types of managers.”

“A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.”

“I think the crisis part is over. Certainly, we still have a lot of hard work to do.”

“Its a little ridiculous,”

“Forget about layers, content on demand, and movies, ... Right now, people cannot understand [why they cannot get service]. If you fix this problem, youre 90 percent of the way there.”

Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.

While were living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

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. You’ll know that you’re likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.

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 you need (which is impossible), the market will pass you by.

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

Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

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