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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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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long 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
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
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Network Social Thinking
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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People Running Technology
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Further Marketing Philanthropy
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
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
Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Certain Emotional Guaranteed Success
We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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Around Cities Communicate Real Roaming
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance Success
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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Ideas Mean Thinking
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Disease Figures Out

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