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 STONEI 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.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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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 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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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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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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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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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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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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