In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
BIZ STONEIn order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
BIZ STONEEmbrace your constraints.
BIZ STONEA personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
BIZ STONEI was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.
BIZ STONEI was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
BIZ STONEI’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
BIZ STONEYou 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.
BIZ STONEIn any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
BIZ STONEI 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.
BIZ STONEYou don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
BIZ STONEWillingness to take risks is the path to success.
BIZ STONECreativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
BIZ STONEWe can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
BIZ STONEDoing startups is all about making mistakes.
BIZ STONEI thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
BIZ STONESo I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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