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.
BIZ STONEI’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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People first. Technology second.
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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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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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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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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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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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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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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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