black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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?”

Biz Stone

Creativity is a renewable resource.
BIZ STONE

Creativity Renewable Resources Resources
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

Newspaper People Thinking Trouble Writing
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

Asking Different Networking Thinking Update
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
BIZ STONE

Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
BIZ STONE

Attention Long Smart
The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
BIZ STONE

Interesting Pedestal Way
Creativity comes from constraint.
BIZ STONE

Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
BIZ STONE

Creativity Running Use
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
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
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

Clip iPhone Mean People Watch
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
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.
BIZ STONE

Meaningful Over Phone Social Thinking
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
BIZ STONE

Earthquakes News People
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

Contains Information Links News Simple
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 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.
BIZ STONE

Network Social Thinking
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.
BIZ STONE

Distribute Mean Say Sound
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
BIZ STONE

Disappointing Leader Position
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.
BIZ STONE

Around Cities Communicate Real Roaming
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
BIZ STONE

Communicate People Way
This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
BIZ STONE

Ideas Impact Secretary Thinking
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.
BIZ STONE

College Environment Needs Psychological
I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
BIZ STONE

Haiku Seentwitter People
A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
BIZ STONE

Belief Failing Faith Personal
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
BIZ STONE

Inspiring Perseverance Success
Embrace your constraints.
BIZ STONE

Constraints Embrace Life

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?”

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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?”

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Biz Stone Quotes