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Guy Kawasaki
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 30
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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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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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Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.
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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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Hockey is the only thing that I'm not good at that I love.
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Accept diversity and don't take any crap.
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'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.
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Jolt is for Windows programmers. It's typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh programmers: it goes in yellow and comes out yellow. It's WYSIWYP.
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An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better.
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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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Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?
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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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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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Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.
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If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.
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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 first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.
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There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.
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Look back to the old days: people bought an MS DOS machine and struggled with it for weeks to bring it up to speed. Then Apple created Macintosh, struggled a bit with it, but eventually succeeded. Then it went into other businesses. If your company truly wants to change the world, it would make these problems go away for customers.
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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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