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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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Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.
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Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.
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Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.
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Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
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Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That's the acid test.
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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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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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Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.
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There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.
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The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.
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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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When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.
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Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.
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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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Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?
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Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players B players hire C players and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to Z players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies.
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Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.
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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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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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Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
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