Guy Kawasaki
Businessman
1954-08-30
Quotes by Guy Kawasaki
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While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.
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Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.
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While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.
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Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.
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A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears.
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Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.
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The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal world, a startup would never have to seek funds at all.
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A simple summary of my life is that my parents worked very hard so that I could have a great education, and I took that education and worked very hard to get where I am. I would like my kids' lives to be exactly the same.
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My perspective is this: my allegiance is to the best product for my needs. For a computer, this means Macintosh. For phone and tablet, this means Android.
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If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
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A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
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The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
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I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn. The key is the 10/20/30 rule: 10 slides given in 20 minutes using no font smaller than 30 points. If people just adhered to this rule, they would double or triple the quality of their presentations.
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Many Android users aren't aware of some the things that Android can already do such as supporting the enforcement of companywide security policies, encrypting phone data and providing e-mail and calendar widgets that update in real-time. Our job is to help people and businesses discover and use these features.
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What I learned from my kids is that the greatest joy in life is not from material trappings, power, or visibility. The greatest joy comes from your kids. Nothing is even close to my kids in terms of bringing me joy.
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Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
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