Guy Kawasaki is a marketing expert, author, and a Silicon Valley venture capitalist from the United States.
Kawasaki is the author of several books, including The Macintosh Way [1990], The Art of the Start [2004], and Wise Guy [2019].
Here are some best quotes from Guy Kawasaki.
Best Guy Kawasaki Quotes
“The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Sales fixes everything.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“And this is the beginning of the end.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“If you make meaning, you’ll make money.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“The goal is to provide inspiring information that moves people to action.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players; B players hire C players; and C players hire D players. It doesn’t take long to get to Z players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
Top Guy Kawasaki Quotes
“Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don’t change the rules you aren’t a revolutionary, and if you don’t think different, you won’t change the rules.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Don’t ask people to do something you wouldn’t.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing, If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Some things need to be believed to be seen.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
Famous Guy Kawasaki Quotes
“A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there’s always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Just be nice, take genuine interest in the people you meet, and keep in touch with people you like. This will create a group of people who are invested in helping you because they know you and appreciate you.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“If you don’t toot your own horn, don’t complain that there’s no music.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
Popular Guy Kawasaki Quotes
“Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Evangelism is selling a dream.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don’t have a business.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“It’s just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It’s a skill that you learn.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“The real question is who will innovate.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Greatness is won, not awarded.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Provide good content and you’ll earn the right to promote your product.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
Inspiring Guy Kawasaki Quotes
“There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“The most powerful sign is that your work no longer enchants you – it’s not deep, delightful, and mutually satisfying. When this happens, it may be time to look for new challenges.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you’ve made the world a better place.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
“People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.” ~ (Guy Kawasaki).
