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“Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.”
John D. Rockefeller
Homeopathy
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Medicine
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Progress
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Health
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Innovation
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“My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?””
John D. Rockefeller
Change
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Innovation
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Perspective
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Growth
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Thinking
3.
“We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.”
John D. Rockefeller
Business
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Investment
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Future
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Sustainability
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Innovation
4.
“Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.”
John D. Rockefeller
Wealth
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Innovation
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Creativity
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Entrepreneurship
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Transformation
5.
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
John D. Rockefeller
Success
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Innovation
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Ambition
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Determination
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Change
6.
“Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow. Franklin capturing the lightning, Morse annihilating space with the telegraph, Bell transmitting speech through the air by the telephone, are not less mysterious – being more ethereal, perhaps in one sense they are even more so – still, the labor of the world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine in a class apart by itself.”
Andrew Carnegie
Invention
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Technology
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Progress
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Industry
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Innovation
7.
“Steel is prince or pauper.”
Andrew Carnegie
Industry
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Business
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Wealth
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Innovation
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Success
8.
“An iron railroad would be a cheaper thing than a road of the common construction. Here lay in a few words the idea from which our railway system has sprung.”
Andrew Carnegie
Innovation
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Transportation
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Industry
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Vision
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Progress
9.
“Pioneering don’t pay.”
Andrew Carnegie
Innovation
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Risk
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Business
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Reality
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Experience
10.
“My theory is that when you’re young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.”
Guy Kawasaki
Hard Work
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Youth
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Ambition
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Dedication
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Innovation
11.
“You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash—it requires long-distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.”
Guy Kawasaki
Perseverance
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Success
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Business
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Innovation
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Growth
12.
“The real question is who will innovate.”
Guy Kawasaki
Innovation
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Success
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Business
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Entrepreneurship
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Future
13.
“There is only one Steve Jobs, but if you want a shot at being the next Steve Jobs, learn to communicate using stories, demos, and pictures.”
Guy Kawasaki
Leadership
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Innovation
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Communication
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Influence
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Success
14.
“Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can’t show you how to make a leap.”
Guy Kawasaki
Customers
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Innovation
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Business
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Feedback
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Strategy
15.
“A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.”
Guy Kawasaki
Innovation
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Business
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Startups
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Success
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Potential
16.
“Many Android users aren't aware of some 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
Technology
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Android
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Security
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Business
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Innovation
17.
“The future belongs to those who can spread ideas.”
Guy Kawasaki
Innovation
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Future
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Ideas
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Influence
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Success
18.
“Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.”
Guy Kawasaki
Business
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Globalization
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Innovation
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Strategy
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Culture
19.
“The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
Guy Kawasaki
Entrepreneurship
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Meaning
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Impact
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Innovation
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Purpose
20.
“The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I’ve never had the same reaction to a product, not in 25 years.”
Guy Kawasaki
Experience
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Inspiration
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Passion
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Innovation
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Impact
21.
“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
Entrepreneurs
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Innovation
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Jobs
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Economy
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Business
22.
“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
Guy Kawasaki
Ideas
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Execution
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Effort
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Innovation
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Strategy
23.
“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.”
Guy Kawasaki
Innovation
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Product
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Startups
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Business
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Development
24.
“To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed the second coming.”
Guy Kawasaki
Technology
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Comparison
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Humor
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Innovation
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Perspective
25.
“Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.”
Guy Kawasaki
Innovation
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Risk
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Technology
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Product Development
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Entrepreneurship
26.
“Revolutionary products don’t fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren’t revised fast enough.”
Guy Kawasaki
Products
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Innovation
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Business
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Failure
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Improvement
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“Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don’t want.”
Guy Kawasaki
Business
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Vision
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Adaptability
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Entrepreneurship
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Innovation
28.
“Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don’t change the rules you aren’t a revolutionary, and if you don’t think different, you won’t change the rules.”
Guy Kawasaki
Innovation
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Thinking
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Change
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Revolution
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Leadership
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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.”
Guy Kawasaki
Innovation
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Business
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Success
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Entrepreneurship
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Evolution
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“The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless – most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn’t even graduate from college.”
Guy Kawasaki
Innovation
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Passion
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Success
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Ability
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Knowledge
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