Guy Kawasaki Quotes

• I travel all the time.

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

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

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• 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.’

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

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• I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

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

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• 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.

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• Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

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• Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

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

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

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• Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

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

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• Evangelism is selling a dream.

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Birth:	30th August, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Entrepreneur

About

Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. Formerly, he was an advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google and chief evangelist of Apple. He is also the author of APE, What the Plus!, Enchantment, and nine other books. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

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