Guy Kawasaki Quotes

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Guy Kawasaki

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 30, 1954

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

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The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.

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Not many people agree with what I do.

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I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

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If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.

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I travel all the time.

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I started my career counting diamonds and schlepping gold jewelry around the world. 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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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.

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A company should search for every instance of the use of its name and zoom in when there are issues - both good and bad.

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If you provide enough value, then you earn the right to promote your company in order to recruit new customers. The key is to always provide value.

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I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist.

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It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence.

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Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails.

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Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck. Call me a romantic, but I think entrepreneurs should try to change the world. This comes from working at Apple... old habits die hard.

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People are forgiving of v 1.0 of a product if it's truly innovative and useful. Then you can get away with a lot. But if you're merely marginally improving the status quo, then you better be rock solid.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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