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Don’t be discouraged by the size of your network – inspire one person and you are doing good.

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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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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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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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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I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.
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If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.
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The telephone operator has one of the biggest roles in creating your organization's image....indeed, many people may come into contact with no one except your operator.
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Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
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When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.
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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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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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I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.
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Enchantment can be done with writing but I think enchantment is basically a prospective or an operating system for life. That you can enchant a person who is assigning your airplane seat, your hotel room, your waiter, your waitress.
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Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.
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I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.
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When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.
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It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.
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An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better.
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One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.
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Just do what's right for the customer, and you'll be okay.
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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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