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.
BIZ STONEEven though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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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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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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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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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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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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