Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
BIZ STONEYou can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.
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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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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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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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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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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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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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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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