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.
BIZ STONEI 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.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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People first. Technology second.
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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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I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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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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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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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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.
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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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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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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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