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Guy Kawasaki
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 30
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Guy Takeo Kawasaki
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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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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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Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
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The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.
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