Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
BIZ STONEThe determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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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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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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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.
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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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I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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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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We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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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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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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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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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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People first. Technology second.
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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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