I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
BIZ STONEA personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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People first. Technology second.
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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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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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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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