It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
BIZ STONESuccess isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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 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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Embrace your constraints.
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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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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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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 haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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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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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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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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A 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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I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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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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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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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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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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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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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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I 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.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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People first. Technology second.
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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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