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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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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
This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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Ideas Impact Secretary Thinking
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
The 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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Meditative Purposes Problem Purpose Running
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
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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Creativity Running Use
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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Meaningful Over Phone Social Thinking
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
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
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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Hate Passionate People Product Scenario
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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Artist Entrepreneur Thinking
A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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Belief Failing Faith Personal
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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Clip iPhone Mean People Watch
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed

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