Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
BIZ STONEI think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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Embrace your constraints.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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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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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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