In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
BIZ STONEIn any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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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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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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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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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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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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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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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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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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