A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
BIZ STONESuccess isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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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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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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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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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 got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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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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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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