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We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
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Impact Person Sales Years
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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Air iPhone Macbook Scratched Two
You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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Ideas Mean Writing
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Ideas Have Confidence
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Further Marketing Philanthropy
The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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Meditative Purposes Problem Purpose Running
Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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Creativity Running Use
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Haiku Seentwitter People
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Coworker Culture Empathetic
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Determination Sports Team
When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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Breaking News People Thinking Twenties
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People

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