Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
BIZ STONEThe determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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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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