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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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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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I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.
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For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.
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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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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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A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.
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Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.
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Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.
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Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.
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Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
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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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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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I'm a lousy predictor of the future.
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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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