If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
— Guy Kawasaki
Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.
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.
When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.
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.
Leverage your brand. You shouldn't let two guys in a garage eat your shorts.
Evangelism is selling a dream.
A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.
If you make money, you might not make meaning.
Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.
What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.'
The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.
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.
At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
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.
