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Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Guy Kawasaki

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Guy Kawasaki
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 30
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Entrepreneur
Evangelism Marketing
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Silicon Valley
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Guy Takeo Kawasaki
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You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.
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At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.
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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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Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.
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High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.
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If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.
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The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.
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Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.
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A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.
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I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.
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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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Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.
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Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.
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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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For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.
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If you truly don't have competition, then zoom out until you can define some. Competition can be as simple as the reliance on the status quo, Microsoft (since at some point Microsoft will compete with everyone for everything), or researchers in universities. Pick something, because saying you have no competition at all is a nonstarter.
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Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
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Look back to the old days: people bought an MS DOS machine and struggled with it for weeks to bring it up to speed. Then Apple created Macintosh, struggled a bit with it, but eventually succeeded. Then it went into other businesses. If your company truly wants to change the world, it would make these problems go away for customers.
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For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section, to move a section, reorganize the section, anything I want to do, I just boot words, and I do what I want to do. So, I feel completely empowered when I'm a writer.
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My real mantra for my life is empower others.
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