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.
BIZ STONEI realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
More Biz Stone Quotes
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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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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 two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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 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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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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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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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People first. Technology second.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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