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 STONEIf people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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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We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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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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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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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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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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I 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.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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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