Hard Quotes by Guy Kawasaki

11 Hard quotes by Guy Kawasaki

Kawasaki’s advice is always to the point, especially when it comes to hard work. These eleven short quotes distill his pragmatic outlook on tackling tough situations.

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The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it.

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It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

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Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

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

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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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When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

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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…

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The key to evangelism is a great product. It is easy, almost unavoidable, to catalyze evangelism for a great product. It is…

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Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal…

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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…

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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…

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Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

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Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

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Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.

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