Guy Kawasaki Quotes

There are a lot of players out there who want to be in my position.

I've always had a fortunate knack for grabbing young talent and giving them a break.

Whether you're playing sports, starting a business or anything else in life, you need to identify your talents. Your responsibility is to find what you do better than anyone else. Once you identify what that is, you need to put yourself in the best position to succeed.

From what I can see, gone are the days where you can just be the strongest, and that will put you at the top. It takes a little bit more... something else to grab the attention of not just pro wrestling fans but fans in general - to catch their eye.

A great idea can't succeed without a great operator. But rarely can a great operator squeak by with a bad idea. So, as pithy as it sounds to say 'It's all about the people,' I only invest when I think I have found the right team for the right business.

Growth is essential to attracting the best and most sophisticated talent.

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere.

Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.

The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

Our leadership [in Microsoft ] has that - "hey, we are the best in certain ways," and so we get the best people. That any kind of positive dynamic is quite good, so I love what's going on there, it's fun.

The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient.

Being successful entails being able to not only get along with people, but also to give something back

I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.

A lot of people said I could be a good player. I just wanted the opportunity to show it. I just let it happen.

Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.

A lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than they put on hiring. Don't do this.

Actually, there is no more important task for a leader than to pick people. To make sure you have the very best people working for you.