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If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.

Guy Kawasaki

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Guy Kawasaki
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 30
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Evangelism Marketing
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Silicon Valley
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Guy Takeo Kawasaki
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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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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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Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal.
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An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.
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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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The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.
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Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.
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Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players B players hire C players and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to Z players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies.
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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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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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Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book?
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At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.
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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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Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.
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I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.
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At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.
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High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.
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Some things need to be believed to be seen.
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I don't need the rush to be happy. I'd be perfectly happy without the attention and action.
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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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