From Apple to Canva (and everything in between), Guy Kawasaki is one of the most recognizable names in online marketing, social media and entrepreneurship.
This presentation gives you 20 nuggets of Kawasaki wisdom on the topics of Entrepreneurship, Finding Success and Living Life. Check it out!
3. “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.”
4. 5,000 or 50,000.
If you're an entrepreneur,
there is no bad time to start a company.”
“It doesn't matter whether the Dow is
5. “Remember, few things are right or
wrong in entrepreneurship...
there’s only what works
and what doesn’t work.”
6. “As a rule of thumb, if you have a good idea,
five companies are
doing the same thing.
If you have a great idea,
fifteen companies are
doing the same thing.”
7. It is a state of mind
of people who want to alter the future.”
“Entrepreneur is not a job title.
8. "Great companies start because the
founders want to change the world...
not make a fast buck."
10. “For selling to work, you need
face-to-face, personalized
intense contact.”
and
11. That is, expose it to as many people as possible and not
just the “A listers” — and pray. That basically describes
what happens when you see magic in action.”
On Virality...
Step one: make something great.
Step two: plant many seeds.
“I have two pieces of advice:
12. Don’t wait for perfection.
Life isn’t perfect. Do the best you can and ship.
Real people ship, and then they test and then
they ship again.
Then you wake up one day
and you have something
insanely great.
13. “If you have more money than brains,
you should focus on outbound marketing,
you should focus on inbound marketing.”
If you have more brains than money,
15. “I used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky...
I don't believe that anymore - this is not to say that you
should strive for a high level of stupidity. My point is that luck
is a big part of many successes. So A) Don't get too bummed
out when you see a bozo succeed; and B) Luck favors the
people who try stuff, not simply think and analyze. As the
Chinese say, "One must wait for a long time with your mouth open
before a Peking duck flies into it."’
16. “When it comes to rainmaking, there’s clearly a
reason why...
God gave us two ears but
only one mouth.”
18. “Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when
they start believing that
the world owes them something
and that the rules are
different for them.”
19. “The next time you think there's something that you...
then see if you're still alive or not.”
"can't live without",
wait for a week and
20. “If you want to make a good first impression,
smile at people. What does it cost to smile?
Nothing.
Everything, if not smiling prevents
you from enchanting people.”
What does it cost not to smile?
21. “Defy the crowd...
The crowd isn’t always wise.
It can also lead you down a path of
silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright
destruction.”
22. “Take my word for it:
More people will like you if you
believe that people are good
until proven bad.”
23. “While we're living,
we need to get over ourselves
and accept others if we want to enchant people.”
24. “When you’ve worked hard and done well and
walked through that doorway of opportunity,
you do not slam it
shut behind you.”
25. Thank you for viewing!
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