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Guy Kawasaki
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 30
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Entrepreneur
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Silicon Valley
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Guy Takeo Kawasaki
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Don't ask people to do something you wouldn't.
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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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Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.
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Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place.
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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 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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Enchantment is the purest form of sales
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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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A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.
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Just do what's right for the customer, and you'll be okay.
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Don’t be discouraged by the size of your network – inspire one person and you are doing good.
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High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.
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When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.
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I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.
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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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The record of what you do is forever recoverable because of Google. The lofty upside and scary downside makes reciprocity more important than ever. This is all good because it makes people think more before they do something that reduces their trustworthiness.
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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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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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The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.
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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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