Quotes By Guy Kawasaki

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.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

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

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.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

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

Not many people agree with what I do.

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.

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.

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.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

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.

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

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

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.

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.