The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship." — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.” — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I've been all over the world meeting with companies and startups and entrepreneurs. And I tell you, they are more similar than… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
If you provide enough value, then you earn the right to promote your company in order to recruit new customers. The key… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck. Call me a romantic, but I… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney,… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Patents make our product defensible." The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once,… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The most powerful way to convince the interviewer that you can do the job is to show how much you already know… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Most of my life is over. I am going to enjoy my family and friends before any of us depart this earth.… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
You know you're ready to write a book when you have a feeling that you should do it, no matter what anybody… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Let's say a startup is hot. It ships something great, and it achieves success. Thus, it's able to attract the best, brightest,… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
"(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
"No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First,… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur? — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I started my career counting diamonds and schlepping gold jewelry around the world. The jewelry business is a very, very tough business… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
At the end of my life, I want to say that I made the world a better place because I raised good… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share
In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule…use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share
The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share
At the end of my life, I want to say that I made the world a better place because I raised good children, loved… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share
The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share
The record of what you do is forever recoverable because of Google. The lofty upside and scary downside makes reciprocity more important than ever.… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share
I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn. The key is the 10/20/30… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share
Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share
Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share
If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing, If you have more brains than money, you should focus on… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share
Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share
"(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the market potential… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share
Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share
![“Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.” quote by Guy Kawasaki](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/89e/guy-kawasaki-1292_business_here-s-what-you-should-say-to-an-investo_2954750.png)
