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" 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
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.' "
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" Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea. "
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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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" Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore... but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is. "
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" Every social media post should have a beautiful graphic. If there are two identical stories, the one with the beautiful graphic will always win. "
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" Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact. "
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" Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails. "
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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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" 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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" Evangelism is selling a dream. "
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" Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life. "
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" It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company. "
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" Entrepreneurship is not for everyone. "
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" If you make money, you might not make meaning. "
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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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" 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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" Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction. "
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" Leverage your brand. You shouldn't let two guys in a garage eat your shorts. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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