In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
BIZ STONEThe reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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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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People first. Technology second.
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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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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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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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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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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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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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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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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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