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" Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails. "
Guy Kawasaki
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands! "
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" 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. "
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" Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make. "
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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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" If you make money, you might not make meaning. "
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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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" I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family. "
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" It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. "
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" A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. "
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" I think a lot of the logic of Google+ is much better in terms of notification of messages to you, in terms of how you post. One very obvious feature is that with Google+, after you post something, you can edit it forever. That is true of both posts and comments. I edit almost every post I make and almost every comment I make. "
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" The most powerful way to convince the interviewer that you can do the job is to show how much you already know about the industry, the company, and the products/services of the company. In other words, enchant the interviewer with how much you already know. "
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" My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It's Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it. "
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" I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist. "
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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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" Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea. "
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" The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it. "
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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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" I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity. "
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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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" 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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" I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That's very useful for someone like me. "
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" Leverage your brand. You shouldn't let two guys in a garage eat your shorts. "
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" I'm a lousy predictor of the future. "
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