Dick Costolo famous quotes

04-12-2025

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.
-- Dick Costolo

#Bars #Measurement #Standards
Believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there, that you will have an impact, as a result of what you do. And you don't need to know now what that would be or how will it happen because no one ever does.
-- Dick Costolo

#Graduation #Believe #Impact
The key is to just get on the bike, and the key to getting on the bikeâ€¦ is to stop thinking about â€˜there are a bunch of reasons I might fall offâ€™ and just hop on and peddle the damned thing. You can pick up a map, a tire pump, and better footwear along the way.
-- Dick Costolo

#Fall #Thinking #Keys
Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.
-- Dick Costolo

#Trying #Ruins #Path
The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.
-- Dick Costolo

#Thinking #People #Want
Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes.
-- Dick Costolo

#Hero #Mean #Action
Authenticity is absolutely the key to a great tweet.
-- Dick Costolo

#Keys #Authenticity #Tweet
People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.
-- Dick Costolo

#Plato #People #Leader
If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.
-- Dick Costolo

#Example #Importance
I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.
-- Dick Costolo

#Towns #Hashtags #Shanghai
As you get ready to walk out under the bright lights of the improvisational stage of the rest of your life be bold. Don't always worry about what your next line is going to be.
-- Dick Costolo

#Light #Worry #Lines
When I was your age, we didnâ€™t have the Internet in our pants. We didnâ€™t even have the Internet not in our pants. Thatâ€™s how bad it was. I know I sound like my grandfather right now. We didnâ€™t have teeth! There were no questions marks, we just had words! What was I talking about? The Internetâ€¦Not only can you not plan the impact youâ€™re going to have, you often wonâ€™t recognize it when youâ€™re having itâ€¦
-- Dick Costolo

#Impact #Talking #Grandfather
Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.
-- Dick Costolo

#Graduation #Worry #Lines
Twitter is a global town square.
-- Dick Costolo

#Squares #Towns
When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was.
-- Dick Costolo

#Graduation #Age #Pants
There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.
-- Dick Costolo

#Graduation #Live Your Life #Scripts
Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.
-- Dick Costolo

#Graduation #Impact #Plans
Apple is our mentor, Facebook is our enemy.
-- Dick Costolo

#Technology #Apples #Enemy
When you are doing what you love to do, you become resilient.
-- Dick Costolo

#Doing What You Love #Resilient
Believe that if you make courageous choices, and bet on yourself, then you will have an impact.
-- Dick Costolo

#Believe #Impact #Choices
Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.
-- Dick Costolo

#Worry #Live Your Life #Lines
Thatâ€™s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.
-- Dick Costolo

#Silly #Issues #Foolish
The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.
-- Dick Costolo

#Zero #Two #Interesting
When youre doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do whats expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.
-- Dick Costolo

#Doing What You Love #Looks #Frozen

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