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.
BIZ STONEEven the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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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 future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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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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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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 realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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People first. Technology second.
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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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