Guy Kawasaki Quotes

I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

Every time you feel entitled, you're making a mistake.

Some athletes take what we have for granted. They kind of feel, 'I'm here, and I earned this, so people who are not on this level should just give me what I want and move out the way.'

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

I've been a golden boy for too long.

We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

I see kids and young adults walking the streets of L.A. with this enormous sense of entitlement, who seem to think that if they are basically good people and pay their bills, then the world will be good back to them. And I think life isn't always like that.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives.

There is, however, no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.