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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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Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal.
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Enchantment is the purest form of sales. Enchantment is all about changing people's hearts, minds and actions because you provide them a vision or a way to do things better. The difference between enchantment and simple sales is that with enchantment you have the other person's best interests at heart, too.
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Companies should always want to delight their customers.
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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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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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When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.
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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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Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.
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Provide good content and you’ll earn the right to promote your product.
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It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.
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Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.
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Look back to the old days: people bought an MS DOS machine and struggled with it for weeks to bring it up to speed. Then Apple created Macintosh, struggled a bit with it, but eventually succeeded. Then it went into other businesses. If your company truly wants to change the world, it would make these problems go away for customers.
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People who earn the label creative are really just people who come up with more combinations of ideas, find interesting ones faster, and are willing to try them out. The problem is that most schools and organizations train us out of those habits.
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The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That’s very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.
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When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.
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Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place.
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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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Accept diversity and don't take any crap.
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For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.
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