Biz Stone quotes

Biz Stone is an American businessman and software developer, best known as a co-founder of Twitter. His work helped shape the landscape of social media and communication in the digital age. He continues to be involved in technology ventures and philanthropy. Here are 28 of his quotes:

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

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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.

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For me, I've learned about what it means to focus on a culture, to build social responsibility, and the idea of a company as a super-organism.

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If I don't get a chance to play with my son in the morning, I feel like I missed something that I'll never get back. It's such a joy to wake up and be in the mindset of a five-year-old before transitioning into the role of "executive."

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Turkeys are intelligent, social, curious, and sometimes even funny. I wish people were more like turkeys sometimes. ... We're going to have a special celebration for turkeys this November, where we're going to hang out with turkeys, we're not going to eat them, we're just going to kind of chill, hang out, talk with the turkeys, eat a little veggies.

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Many iconic features of Twitter have been created over the years by listening and watching what people who use Twitter do with it and then working to make it easier and better for them-we still do this today.

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I think when people twitter 20 or 30 times per day, that's too much. They are boxing everyone else out, and people stop following them because they need a break.

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