A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
BIZ STONEI’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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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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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Embrace your constraints.
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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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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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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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I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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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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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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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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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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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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The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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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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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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