Guy Kawasaki Quotes

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

I think the Indian AI ecosystem is growing rapidly. A lot of Indian entrepreneurs reach out to me seeking feedback about startups and products. And some of them have very interesting business ideas.

We can support innovators and entrepreneurs.

Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct?

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

When you get involved in a startup, you have to be passionate.

When I explained my business model to my family, they asked if I was going to open a travel agency.

I have always been fascinated by entrepreneurship.

Capital never builds great products.

Graduating business school, I had $150,000 of debt. An investment firm offered me a steady job, but it didn't feel right. It was 2007 in Silicon Valley, and I dreamed of starting an Internet company.

The Internet free marketplace is defined by fierce competition. And that competition has transformed the world with innovation, investment, and what we need most of all right now: jobs.

Every new startup business creates new opportunities. It doesn't matter whether you have a new app for college students or a home medical device for senior citizens; there are other multibillion noncompetitive corporations that are spending millions of dollars trying to market their goods and services to your same audience.

I told myself the next time I had a good idea, I would bring it to market.

Founding a successful startup is no different than forming a rock band.

As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.

'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.

So many entrepreneurs approach me and say, 'I want to start the next big thing,' and I say, 'Well, what are you solving?' And oftentimes they say, 'Oh, I'm not sure. I want to start something big.' You can never start something big without solving something small, right?

Berlin is well on its way to becoming one of the most vibrant startup hubs in the world.

I think funding risky projects is very important.

There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.