Creativity comes from constraint.
BIZ STONEIn any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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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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.
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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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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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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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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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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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