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Guy Kawasaki
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 30
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Silicon Valley
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Guy Takeo Kawasaki
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I'm a lousy predictor of the future.
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My real mantra for my life is empower others.
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You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.
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Klout and various measurements of influence are fun. I love to see where I score on them, but there's a computer algorithm behind the calculation. If there's an algorithm, it can be gamed. Even if it's not gameable, you have to take a leap of faith that the number of followers, retweets, mentions, whatever really mean something.
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Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.
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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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The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.
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If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.
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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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Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
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I don't need the rush to be happy. I'd be perfectly happy without the attention and action.
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The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult.
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Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
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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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The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless--most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.
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The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.
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If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.
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Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?
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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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The most powerful sign is that your work no longer enchants you - it's not deep, delightful, and mutually satisfying. When this happens, it may be time to look for new challenges.
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