If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
BIZ STONECreativity comes from constraint.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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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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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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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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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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The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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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 knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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 determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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