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I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

Guy Kawasaki

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Guy Kawasaki
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 30
Author
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Evangelism Marketing
Marketing
Merchant
Silicon Valley
Honolulu
Hawaii
Guy Takeo Kawasaki
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Lousy
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Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
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Some things need to be believed to be seen.
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When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.
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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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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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Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
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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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Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.
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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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You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.
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Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.
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Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
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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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Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.
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Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
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Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.
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If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.
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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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