Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
BIZ STONEYou can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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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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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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People first. Technology second.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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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.
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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 thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.
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They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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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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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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