Biz Stone famous quotes

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
-- Biz Stone

#Inspiring #Perseverance #Business

Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist,
-- Biz Stone

#Ideas #Have Confidence

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
-- Biz Stone

#Order #Succeed #Failing

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

#Dna #Social Media

The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.
-- Biz Stone

#Smart #Simple #People

Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
-- Biz Stone

#Mind #Answers #Open Mind

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.
-- Biz Stone

#Thinking #Ideas #Impact

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

#Made #Employee #Investors

Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.
-- Biz Stone

#Inspirational #Graduation #Fall

When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
-- Biz Stone

#Hands #People #Possibility

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
-- Biz Stone

#People #Empowering #Tools

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.
-- Biz Stone

#Moving #Ideas #Bird

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
-- Biz Stone

#Risk #Path #Path To Success

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.
-- Biz Stone

#Careers #Decision #Design

The future of marketing is philanthropy,
-- Biz Stone

#Marketing #Philanthropy

Creativity comes from constraint.
-- Biz Stone

#Business #Creativity #Entrepreneurship

There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.
-- Biz Stone

#Superhero #Together #World

If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
-- Biz Stone

#Opportunity #Firsts #Advantage

Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
-- Biz Stone

#Running #Creativity #Creative

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
-- Biz Stone

#Sports #Determination #Team

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
-- Biz Stone

#Certain

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

#Disease #Figures

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better,
-- Biz Stone

#Creative #Challenges #Provocative

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

#Easy

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

#Smart #Long #Attention

People first. Technology second.
-- Biz Stone

#Technology #People #Firsts

Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.
-- Biz Stone

#Running #Like You #Refreshing

You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
-- Biz Stone

#People #Way #Communicate

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
-- Biz Stone

#Creativity #Perfect #Design

I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
-- Biz Stone

#Running #Ideas #Renewable Resources

It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.
-- Biz Stone

#Stars #People #Brave

I've seen people twitter in haiku only.
-- Biz Stone

#People #Haiku

If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
-- Biz Stone

#Hate #People #Passionate

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.
-- Biz Stone

#Disappointing #Position

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
-- Biz Stone

#Artist #Thinking #Entrepreneur

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.
-- Biz Stone

#College #Needs #Environment

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

#Animal #Compassion #Wife

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.
-- Biz Stone

#Belief #Failing

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

#Running #Purpose #Problem

Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
-- Biz Stone

#Dream #Firsts #Steps

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

#Culture #Coworker #Empathetic

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
-- Biz Stone

#Mistake #Making Mistakes

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.
-- Biz Stone

#Impact #Years #Culture

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.
-- Biz Stone

#Iphone #Air #Two