Biz Stone

“Opportunity is manufactured”

— Biz Stone

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

— Biz Stone

“Your goals should be bigger than your ego,”

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People first. Technology second.

— Biz Stone

Creativity is a renewable resource.

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I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.

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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

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The future of marketing is philanthropy,

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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

— Biz Stone

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.

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“Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it.”

— Biz Stone

At Twitter, mobile is in our DNA ... For us, it's all about mobile, and it always has been.

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I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

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I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.

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With Twitter, it's as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.

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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 mean, even when it's really simple, there's so much amazing beautiful creativity that can come out of that.

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The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.

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“Constraint inspired creativity. Blank spaces are difficult to fill, but the smallest prompt can send us in fantastic new directions”

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I think it's a really big deal to be able to meet people outside the context of something like a conference room…

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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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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…

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We focus a lot on culture specifically at Twitter because of this spotlight, and of the fact that we don't want to…

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You have to think for an email. What's the subject? What's it about? It takes two seconds to think about that. So…

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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…

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When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They're reporting what they're seeing…

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The international limit on mobile texting, or SMS, is 160 characters. We wanted Twitter to be entirely readable and writable on every…

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We realized we weren't really using Odeo, we weren't investing our own time creating podcasts. We were building a tool that was…

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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.…

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In a job where you're on a computer all day, and we cater lunch and we put snacks in the kitchen, well,…

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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,…

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I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just…

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Constraint inspires creativity

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Embrace your constraints.

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I've seen people twitter in haiku only.

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Creativity comes from constraint.

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We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

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Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.

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