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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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Belief Failing Faith Personal
If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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Hate Passionate People Product Scenario
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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Clip iPhone Mean People Watch
You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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Google Place Thought Work
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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College Environment Needs Psychological
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
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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Around Cities Communicate Real Roaming
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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Ideas Mean Thinking
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
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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Breaking News People Thinking Twenties

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