Guy Kawasaki Quotes

When people have a real sense of legacy, a sense of mattering, a sense of contribution, it seems to tap into the deepest part of their heart and soul. It brings out the best and subordinates the rest.

The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.

I'm motivated to keep going to keep making a difference in people's lives.

I want to be able to enjoy my life to the fullest so I can add something to the lives of people around me.

I just want to do something that I feel makes a difference.

If somebody is doing more and more to make other people's lives better, have them make all they can, if that's what drives them, because that's what we want.

By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

I'm very aware that just driving blindly towards money won't get me anything. I drive blindly towards making the world a better place.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.

When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.