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 STONEWe can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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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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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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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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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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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 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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Constraint inspires creativity
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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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People first. Technology second.
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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 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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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