Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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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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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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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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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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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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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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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Embrace your constraints.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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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