Biz Stone Quotes

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

Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

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.

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

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

You curate information that you want to receive. It's a lot different because I'm not asking you if it's okay, I'm just saying I'm following your updates. That's why I don't think of Twitter as a social network.

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

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Creativity comes from constraint.

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

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

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

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

Creativity is a renewable resource.

People first. Technology second.

I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York. They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, "Me." He was like, "The box guy?"

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

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

The future of marketing is philanthropy.

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

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

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

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.

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

I've seen people twitter in haiku only.

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

I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.

I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.

I think we definitely want to focus on the simplicity aspect because it's something that's built into the culture even here at Twitter. Constraints inspire creativity.

Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.

What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we're doing it now. You know? Maybe that's a way to go. The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let's give away a Kindle to everyone.

When you think about email or IMing, why aren't you writing back? I can see your avatar, I know you're online, why aren't you writing me back? But with Twitter, everybody sends their responses to Twitter, and Twitter then sends them out to everyone. So there's not this constant connection. You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it's fine.

You have to think for an email. What's the subject? What's it about? It takes two seconds to think about that. So you have to think, Is this a work thing or a social thing? Which? Then you get into a situation that you don't want to be in, because then people are thinking about it too much.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.