The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
BIZ STONECreativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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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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What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
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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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A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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So 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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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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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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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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