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

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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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Blogging Call Community Decide Sort
When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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Breaking News People Thinking Twenties
What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
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Country Giving Technology
If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Advantage Firsts Opportunity
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
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
I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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Age Care Curious Writing
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.
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Basically Good Most People Simple Smart
Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Renewable Resources Resources
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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Meaningful Over Phone Social Thinking
I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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Communication Moving Real
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Coworker Culture Empathetic
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
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Further Marketing Philanthropy
You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment

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