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Guy Kawasaki
American
Businessman
Born:
Aug 30
,
1954
Good
Great
People
World
You
Your
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If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
Guy Kawasaki
Teacher
You
Heroes
Society
Pedestal
Someone
Put
Teachers
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.
Guy Kawasaki
Business
Social Media
Important
Earn
Else
Everything
Ears
Everything Else
Marketing
Ways
Eyeballs
Cost-Effective
Small
Small Business
Involves
Because
Enables
Conduct
Social
Large
Media
Presence
Last
Buying
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
Guy Kawasaki
Great
Change
World
Change The World
Buck
Make
Because
Want
Companies
Fast
Founders
Start
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.
Guy Kawasaki
Life
My Life
Secret
Out
Willingness
Talent
Lack
The Secret Of
Grind
Compensate
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki
Art
Patience
Impatience
Concealing
Your
I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them.
Guy Kawasaki
Work
Hard Work
Change
People
World
Entitlement
Try
Others
Kids
Would
Merit
Like
Accept
Because
Where
Succeed
Them
Hard
Inherit
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
Guy Kawasaki
Work
Hard Work
Good
Luck
About
Percent
Ten
Idea
Implementation
Hard
Good Idea
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.
Guy Kawasaki
Good
People
Better
Good People
Others
Look
Make
Hire
Than
Etc
Themselves
Skills
Players
Below
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.
Guy Kawasaki
People
World
Smart
Owes
Rules
Something
Wrong
Well-Meaning
Get
Different
Them
Believing
Start
Start Believing
The most important thing is that you hire people who complement you and are better than you in specific areas. Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players.
Guy Kawasaki
Good
You
People
Better
Good People
Important
Complement
Area
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Hire
Than
The Most Important
Themselves
Who
Specific
Thing
Players
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.
Guy Kawasaki
People
Phone
Job
Our
Security
Android
Some
Data
Features
Supporting
Calendar
Policies
Discover
Providing
Update
Enforcement
Use
Help
Help People
Businesses
Users
Many
Aware
Things
My mother taught me not to take any crap from anyone and to stand up for my rights. You might not believe this lesson came from a tiny Japanese woman, but it's true.
Guy Kawasaki
Me
You
Rights
Woman
Mother
Lesson
Believe
Take
True
Came
Up
Any
Tiny
Taught
Anyone
Crap
Japanese
Might
Stand
Stand Up
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.
Guy Kawasaki
Life
Me
Joy
Power
Nothing
Visibility
Kids
Terms
Learned
Greatest
Material
Close
Your
Trappings
Even
Bringing
I've been all over the world meeting with companies and startups and entrepreneurs. And I tell you, they are more similar than different.
Guy Kawasaki
You
World
Startups
Meeting
Tell
Similar
More
Entrepreneurs
Over
Been
Than
Different
Companies
You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.
Guy Kawasaki
You
Money
Try
Social Media
Unless
Spend
About
More
Than
Effort
Expense
Social
Really
Media
I don't think Steve Jobs nauseated people when talking about how great Apple stuff was. The reason why he didn't nauseate people is because it was true. The start of all great marketing is to have a great product.
Guy Kawasaki
Great
People
Think
Marketing
Jobs
About
He
True
Stuff
Steve
Steve Jobs
Talking
Because
How
Product
Reason
Why
Apple
Start
As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product.
Guy Kawasaki
Buy
Great
You
People
World
Will
Rest
Journalist
Down
Thinking
Analyst
Top
Marketers
Tell
Finding
Go
Accustomed
Endorse
Famous
Communicators
Product
Your
Who
A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.
Guy Kawasaki
Competitor
Dies
Crash
Your
Program
It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.
Guy Kawasaki
Will
Big
Innovate
Say
Jobs
Easy
Entrepreneurs
Simplistic
Real
Big Companies
Question
Unemployment
Real Question
Create
Who
Companies
Evangelism is selling a dream.
Guy Kawasaki
Dream
Selling
Evangelism
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
Guy Kawasaki
Good
Failure
Magnificent
Good Thing
Ambitious
Very
Thing
I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.
Guy Kawasaki
Myself
Family
Financial
Father
Consider
Resources
Financial Resources
Merely
His
Provide
Role
There are two ways to approach the application process: trying to hit a home run by getting an immediate 'Yes, here's an offer' or trying not to be eliminated. I recommend the second approach.
Guy Kawasaki
Home
Approach
Immediate
Ways
Run
Recommend
Yes
Hit
Offer
Trying
Getting
Process
Home Run
Application
Eliminated
Second
Here
Two
Leverage your brand. You shouldn't let two guys in a garage eat your shorts.
Guy Kawasaki
You
Eat
Guys
Brand
Shorts
Your
Garage
Leverage
Two
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.
Guy Kawasaki
Life
Great
People
Worth
Better
Mind
My Life
Say
Would
Net
Net Worth
Both
Picking
Stuff
Great Stuff
Obviously
Make
Empowered
Although
End
Died
Former
Billion
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.
Guy Kawasaki
You
Business
Jewelry
Care
Tough
Tough Business
Computer
Tougher
Take
Take Care
Understand
How
Truly
Very
Than
Customers
Your
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