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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
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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Connection Experience Greatest Work
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
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
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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Answers Mind Open
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
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.
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Ideas Impact Secretary Thinking
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Further Marketing Philanthropy
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
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance Success
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
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.
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Around Cities Communicate Real Roaming
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

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