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Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Guy Kawasaki

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Guy Kawasaki
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 30
Author
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Evangelism Marketing
Marketing
Merchant
Silicon Valley
Honolulu
Hawaii
Guy Takeo Kawasaki
Entrepreneurship
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Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.
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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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