Biz Stone Quotes

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

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

Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.

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

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

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Creativity comes from constraint.

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

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

There are a lot of sources of information out there, so why don't you curate for yourself a list, like a real timeline of information, like the New York Times, or JetBlue, or your friends, or this comedian, or this guy who pretends to be a cat, or whatever it is, whatever entertains you, whatever you find useful.

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