Guy Kawasaki Quotes

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Guy Kawasaki

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 30, 1954

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Guy Kawasaki

The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!

Guy Kawasaki

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

Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life.

Guy Kawasaki

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn. The key is the 10/20/30 rule: 10 slides given in 20 minutes using no font smaller than 30 points. If people just adhered to this rule, they would double or triple the quality of their presentations.

Guy Kawasaki

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

Guy Kawasaki

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

Guy Kawasaki

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

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

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

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

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.'

Guy Kawasaki

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

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

Guy Kawasaki

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

Guy Kawasaki

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

Guy Kawasaki

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

Guy Kawasaki

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

Guy Kawasaki

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

Guy Kawasaki

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

Guy Kawasaki