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.
BIZ STONEIt’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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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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I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Embrace your constraints.
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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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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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’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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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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People first. Technology second.
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