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When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance Success
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
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
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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Designed Director Guy PIcked Wanted
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
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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Basically Good Most People Simple Smart
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
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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Impact Person Sales Years
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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Country Giving Technology
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Determination Sports Team
Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Certain Emotional Guaranteed Success
A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.
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Contains Information Links News Simple
Constraint inspires creativity
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Constraints Creativity Inspire
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter

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