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Accept diversity and don't take any crap.

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Guy Kawasaki
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 30
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Entrepreneur
Evangelism Marketing
Marketing
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Silicon Valley
Honolulu
Hawaii
Guy Takeo Kawasaki
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The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.
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If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.
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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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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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Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.
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Some things need to be believed to be seen.
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The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.
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Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.
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At the end of my life, I want to say that I made the world a better place because I raised good children, loved my wife, and empowered entrepreneurs. If I do these things, then I can rest knowing that I made the world a better place.
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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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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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The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult.
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Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.
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People who earn the label creative are really just people who come up with more combinations of ideas, find interesting ones faster, and are willing to try them out. The problem is that most schools and organizations train us out of those habits.
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Evangelism is selling a dream.
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The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That’s very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.
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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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