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Accept diversity and don't take any crap.

Guy Kawasaki

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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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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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Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.
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Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.
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Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.
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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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The most powerful sign is that your work no longer enchants you - it's not deep, delightful, and mutually satisfying. When this happens, it may be time to look for new challenges.
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Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.
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People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.
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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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