black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

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

Connection Experience Greatest Work
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.
BIZ STONE

Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
BIZ STONE

Ideas Have Confidence
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
BIZ STONE

Determination Sports Team
I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
BIZ STONE

Ideas Renewable Resources Running
People first. Technology second.
BIZ STONE

Firsts People Technology
Constraint inspires creativity
BIZ STONE

Constraints Creativity Inspire
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.
BIZ STONE

People Running Technology
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.
BIZ STONE

Impact Person Sales Years
The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
BIZ STONE

Meditative Purposes Problem Purpose Running
Embrace your constraints.
BIZ STONE

Constraints Embrace Life
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.
BIZ STONE

Basically Good Most People Simple Smart
I 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.
BIZ STONE

Exactly Newspaper Shapes Stories Think Waiting
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

Bird Ideas Moving
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.
BIZ STONE

Blogging Call Community Decide Sort
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
BIZ STONE

Failing Order Succeed

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Biz Stone Quotes