Guy Kawasaki Quotes

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

Work, Good, Hard

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki

Art, Patience, Impatience

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.
Guy Kawasaki

Smart, Different, Wrong

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

Society, Someone, Put

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.
Guy Kawasaki

Business, Care, Understand

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

Life, Secret, Talent

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

Business, Job, Makes

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.
Guy Kawasaki

Made, Worry, Means

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.
Guy Kawasaki

Good, Others, Themselves

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.
Guy Kawasaki

Time, Bad, Start

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

Two, Company, Guys

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

Program, Competitor, Crash

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

Good, Failure, Ambitious

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.
Guy Kawasaki

Life, Great, Mind

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.
Guy Kawasaki

Country, Coming, Europe

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

Trying, Idea, Stop

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

Used, Create, Sell

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.
Guy Kawasaki

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.
Guy Kawasaki

Evangelism is selling a dream.
Guy Kawasaki

Dream, Selling, Evangelism

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

Change, Great, Start

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.
Guy Kawasaki

Curiosity, Active

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

Friends, Kids, Personal

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.'
Guy Kawasaki

Life, System, Ready

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

Family, Father, Financial

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: August 30, 1954

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