I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
BIZ STONELesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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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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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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The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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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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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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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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