Biz Stone Quotes
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.
Constraint inspires creativity
Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
At Twitter, mobile is in our DNA ... For us, it's all about mobile, and it always has been.
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.
Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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.
I mean, even when it's really simple, there's so much amazing beautiful creativity that can come out of that.
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.
When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.
If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
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.
I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.
A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.
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.
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.
Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.
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.
If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.
We didn't have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.
