Embrace your constraints.
BIZ STONEWillingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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 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.
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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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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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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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I 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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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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