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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
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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Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment
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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Ideas Impact Secretary Thinking
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
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 Running Technology
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
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Ideas Mean Thinking
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Ideas Have Confidence
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
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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Connection Experience Greatest Work
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
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

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