Guy Kawasaki Quotes

When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.

If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.

Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!

Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.

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.

I would consider...Google Plus a push technology. It's closer to Twitter than to Facebook.

For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

I travel all the time.

Don't ask people to do something you wouldn't.

If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

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.

The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.

Not many people agree with what I do.

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

Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.

Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.

If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.

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.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.

The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That’s very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.

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.

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed the second coming

And this is the beginning of the end.

You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.

It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.

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

You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

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

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.

Jolt is for Windows programmers. It's typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh programmers: it goes in yellow and comes out yellow. It's WYSIWYP.

The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I've never had the same reaction to a product, not in 25 years.

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.

The telephone operator has one of the biggest roles in creating your organization's image....indeed, many people may come into contact with no one except your operator.

My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.

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.

The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.

I don't "need" the rush to be happy. I'd be perfectly happy without the attention and action.

Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.

Someone once said that death is God's way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out.