Guy Kawasaki

“A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.”

“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.”

“The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.”

“I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist.”

“I travel all the time.”

“Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.”

“As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product.”

“I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.”

“I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.”

“Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.”

“It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.”

“The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.”

“A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears.”

“Many Android users aren't aware of some the things that Android can already do such as supporting the enforcement of companywide security policies, encrypting phone data and providing e-mail and calendar widgets that update in real-time. Our job is to help people and businesses discover and use these features.”

“I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.'”

“A simple summary of my life is that my parents worked very hard so that I could have a great education, and I took that education and worked very hard to get where I am. I would like my kids' lives to be exactly the same.”

“I don't think Steve Jobs nauseated people when talking about how great Apple stuff was. The reason why he didn't nauseate people is because it was true. The start of all great marketing is to have a great product.”

“Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.”

“My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It's Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it.”

“I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.”