Top 180 Guy Kawasaki Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

— Guy Kawasaki

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2. “Sales fixes everything.”

— Guy Kawasaki

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3. “The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.”

— Guy Kawasaki

4. “Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.”

— Guy Kawasaki

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5. “And this is the beginning of the end.”

— Guy Kawasaki

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

— Guy Kawasaki

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7. “Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.”

— Guy Kawasaki

8. “If you make meaning, you’ll make money.”

— Guy Kawasaki

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9. “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

10. “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

11. “The goal is to provide inspiring information that moves people to action.”

— Guy Kawasaki

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

— Guy Kawasaki

13. “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

14. “Don’t ask people to do something you wouldn’t.”

— Guy Kawasaki

15. “Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.”

— Guy Kawasaki

16. “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

17. “If you don’t toot your own horn, don’t complain that there’s no music.”

— Guy Kawasaki

18. “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

19. “The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.”

— Guy Kawasaki

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20. “Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.”

— Guy Kawasaki

21. “A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.”

— Guy Kawasaki

22. “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

23. “The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it.”

— Guy Kawasaki

24. “Some things need to be believed to be seen.”

— Guy Kawasaki

25. “If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don’t have a business.”

— Guy Kawasaki

26. “One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.”

— Guy Kawasaki

27. “Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.”

— Guy Kawasaki

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

— Guy Kawasaki

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

— Guy Kawasaki

30. “Greatness is won, not awarded.”

— Guy Kawasaki

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

— Guy Kawasaki

32. “Evangelism is selling a dream.”

— Guy Kawasaki

33. “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

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

— Guy Kawasaki

35. “It’s just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.”

— Guy Kawasaki

36. “The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas.”

— Guy Kawasaki

37. “High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.”

— Guy Kawasaki

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

— Guy Kawasaki

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39. “If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.”

— Guy Kawasaki

40. “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

41. “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

42. “The real question is who will innovate.”

— Guy Kawasaki

43. “How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.”

— Guy Kawasaki

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

— Guy Kawasaki

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

— Guy Kawasaki

46. “Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. – Oscar Wilde.”

— Guy Kawasaki

47. “There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.”

— Guy Kawasaki

48. “Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”

— Guy Kawasaki

49. “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

50. “If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.”

— Guy Kawasaki