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.
BIZ STONEWe 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.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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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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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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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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They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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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 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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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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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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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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