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Guy Kawasaki Biography

Guy Takeo Kawasaki (born August 30, 1954) is an American marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing their Macintosh computer line in 1984. He popularized the word evangelist in marketing the Macintosh and the concepts of evangelism marketing and technology evangelism.

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Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.

Disorganizatio, Enemy, Good, Good Writing, Writing

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Entrepreneurship, Everyone

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

Duck, Ducks, Long, Rivers, Side

Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

Abbreviations, Frequently, Idiosyncrasy, Number, Numbers, Should Have

Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.

Book, People, Person, Reader, Writing

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship, Essence, Learning

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

500, Fortune, Skill, Skills, Succeed

Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules.

Change, Definition, Order, Think, Thinking

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.

Hurt, Thinking, Order, Lunacy, Help

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

Artist, Branding, Roles, Specialized, Taken

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

Found, Hard, Leadership, Management, People

Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.

Way, Enchanted, Let, Ways, Small

My real mantra for my life is "empower others".

Empowering, Life, Life Is, Mantra, Real

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.

Increase, Journal, Peer Review, Peers, Scientific, The End Of The Day

Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools. " You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!

Buy, Mean, Needs, Test, Tool, Tools

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

Create, Make, Sell, Selling, Sells, Used

You really can't spend money on socail media unless you really try. Socia media is really more about effort than expense.

Effort, Expense, Media, Spend, Trying

Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

Enchanting, Inspirational, Interesting, Passion, People, Pursuing

There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.

Liars, Media, People, Two

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.

Creating, Distance, Emotional, Mental, Product, Skills

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