Quotes By Guy Kawasaki

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

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.

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

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.

Evangelism is selling a dream.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

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.

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.'

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.

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.

I travel all the time.

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

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

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