Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
BIZ STONEI think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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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 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 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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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Embrace your constraints.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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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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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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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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