I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.
BIZ STONEInventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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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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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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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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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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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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The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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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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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 haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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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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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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