The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
BIZ STONEIn order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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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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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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People first. Technology second.
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Embrace your constraints.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
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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 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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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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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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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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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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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 realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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