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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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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 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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Impact Person Sales Years
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
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Further Marketing Philanthropy
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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Interesting Pedestal Way
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance Success
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
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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Creativity Design Perfect
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
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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Artist Entrepreneur Thinking
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart

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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