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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Certain Emotional Guaranteed Success
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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Ideas Mean Writing
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Determination Sports Team
The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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Meditative Purposes Problem Purpose Running
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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Blogging Call Community Decide Sort
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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Book Computer Everyone Jacked Jumped Slipped
I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Ideas Renewable Resources Running
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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Interesting Pedestal Way
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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Ideas Mean Thinking
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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Impact Person Sales Years
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life

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