Guy Kawasaki Quotes

Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.

You can't study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.

Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

As an entrepreneur at heart, I am excited to see so many new opportunities, and I am honoured to accept this opportunity to help shape the next stage of HTC's development.

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Yeah, handsome, great big guy, seven feet tall! Name is Rick Miller - Portland, Oregon. And he started a business. Of course you know it was in basketball. But it wasn't in basketball! I mean, I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

I'm an entrepreneur and I love business. That's what I've always done. I went to school for that. My father took me out and said, 'You're gonna be here like everybody else.'

I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.

Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.

My dream was to have my own advertising agency by the time I was 30, and that was before I got into movies.

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.