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Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

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Guy Kawasaki
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 30
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Evangelism is selling a dream.
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Best way to succeed is to do things for the customer, not to the competition. Very few people buy a product in order to help you hurt the competition. To think otherwise is lunacy.
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One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.
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Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules.
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The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.
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The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That’s very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.
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The record of what you do is forever recoverable because of Google. The lofty upside and scary downside makes reciprocity more important than ever. This is all good because it makes people think more before they do something that reduces their trustworthiness.
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I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.
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I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.
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Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.
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If you use social media right, you will piss people off. It's actually recommended!
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Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal.
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Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.
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For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.
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Accept diversity and don't take any crap.
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The key to evangelism is a great product. It is easy, almost unavoidable, to catalyze evangelism for a great product. It is hard, almost impossible, to catalyze evangelism for crap.
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Enchantment is the purest form of sales
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You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.
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An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.
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Companies should always want to delight their customers.
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