348 Quotes by Guy Kawasaki

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

Some things need to be believed to be seen.

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

An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.

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

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.

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

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

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.