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Guy Kawasaki
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 30
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Entrepreneur
Evangelism Marketing
Marketing
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Silicon Valley
Honolulu
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Guy Takeo Kawasaki
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High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.
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I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.
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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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Most of my life is over. I am going to enjoy my family and friends before any of us depart this earth. I'll never start another company. I'll never work long hours again. At this point in my life, I only answer to God, my wife, and my kids. Everything else is secondary - especially the expectations of strangers.
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When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.
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At the end of my life, I want to say that I made the world a better place because I raised good children, loved my wife, and empowered entrepreneurs. If I do these things, then I can rest knowing that I made the world a better place.
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It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.
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The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.
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The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.
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Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
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What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out.
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Accept diversity and don't take any crap.
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Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.
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The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it.
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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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Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.
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Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.
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Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.
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People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.
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A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You’ll know that you’re likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.
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