If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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People first. Technology second.
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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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Embrace your constraints.
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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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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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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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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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