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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
Honolulu
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Guy Takeo Kawasaki
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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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Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.
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Just be nice, take genuine interest in the people you meet, and keep in touch with people you like. This will create a group of people who are invested in helping you because they know you and appreciate you.
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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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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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If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing, If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing.
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The telephone operator has one of the biggest roles in creating your organization's image....indeed, many people may come into contact with no one except your operator.
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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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The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.
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Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.
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It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.
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I'm a lousy predictor of the future.
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At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.
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Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.
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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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The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning to create a product or service to make the world a better place.
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Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable.
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Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.
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Don't ask people to do something you wouldn't.
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When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.
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