In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
BIZ STONEA 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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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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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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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
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You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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Embrace your constraints.
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The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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People first. Technology second.
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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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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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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Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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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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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 figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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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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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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