Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight 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
-
-
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.
BIZ STONE -
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.
BIZ STONE -
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
BIZ STONE -
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?
BIZ STONE -
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.
BIZ STONE -
Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
BIZ STONE -
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.
BIZ STONE -
When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
BIZ STONE -
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
BIZ STONE -
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
BIZ STONE -
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.
BIZ STONE -
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 STONE -
Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
BIZ STONE -
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
BIZ STONE -
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
BIZ STONE







