Quotes By Guy Kawasaki

A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

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.

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.

Leverage your brand. You shouldn't let two guys in a garage eat your shorts.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

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

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

Not many people agree with what I do.

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.

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.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: 'I could have done that in half an hour, and it's been done before. What's the big deal? I expected something more from him.' Meanwhile, they didn't do it, right? They're still living at home with their mothers.

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.

I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.'

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

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.

Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.

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

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

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.

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.