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.
BIZ STONEIn any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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 knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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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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If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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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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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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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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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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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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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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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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