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My real mantra for my life is empower others.

Guy Kawasaki

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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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What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.
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Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no good. It can even be done algorithmically. Writing is process-intensive activity.
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If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.
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If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.
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You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.
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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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Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.
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Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.
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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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If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.
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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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A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You’ll know that you’re likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.
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Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.
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Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.
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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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Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.
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For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section, to move a section, reorganize the section, anything I want to do, I just boot words, and I do what I want to do. So, I feel completely empowered when I'm a writer.
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The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.
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I'm a lousy predictor of the future.
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