348 Quotes by Guy Kawasaki

My real mantra for my life is "empower others".

Skillful pitching... is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of raising capital. More important are the realities of your organization: Are you building something meaningful, long lasting, and valuable to society?

Great teams are usually small-under fifty in total head count. (There are few examples of a team made up of hundreds of people who created anything revolutionary.) Big teams aren't conducive to revolutionary products because such products require a high degree of single-mindedness, unity, and unreasonable passion.

It’s hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

Arguably, in business books, I don’t think there’s much that has never been said before.

I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It’s complex, it’s confusing, it’s idiosyncratic.

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.

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.

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