Guy Kawasaki Quotes

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

Great minds think alone.

All the great masters in the world have been saying only one thing down the centuries, "Have your own mind and have your own individuality. Don't be a part of the crowd; don't be a wheel in the whole mechanism of a vast society. Be individual, on your own. Live life with your own eyes; listen to music with your own ears." But we are not doing anything with our own ears, with our own eyes, with our own minds; everything is being taught, and we are following it.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

Listen to everyone, follow no one.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

My whole life is a contradiction on purpose - to make you think. I think people have forgetten how to have their own opinions. They're always waiting for someone to tell them what to do and what to wear - it's so boring.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society…