Guy Kawasaki

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.

Guy Kawasaki

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I’m picking the former, although I would not mind both.

Guy Kawasaki

At the end of the day in business, it’s not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

Guy Kawasaki

Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That’s the acid test.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Guy Kawasaki

Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore… but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is.

Guy Kawasaki

Disorganization is the enemy of good writing.

Guy Kawasaki

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

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

Guy Kawasaki