348 Quotes by Guy Kawasaki

You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

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

My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I'm trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists.

"(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the market potential for his segment is tens of billions. It doesn't matter if the product is bar mitzah planning software or 802.11 chip sets. Venture capitalists don't believe this type of forecast because it's the fifth one of this magnitude that they've heard that day. Entrepreneurs would do themselves a favor by simply removing any reference to market size estimates from consulting firms.

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.

The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas.

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

My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It’s Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it. Let Google do its job and you do your job.