Best 80 quotes of Biz Stone on MyQuotes

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

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

A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.

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

Creativity comes from constraint.

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.

Creativity is a renewable resource.

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.

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

Embrace your constraints.

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

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

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

Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.

I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.

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.

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

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

I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas them up and drive them to everyone's house. I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn't sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.

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

I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.

I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, so I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.

I think before Twitter people didn't think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I'm trying to say, if we're trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over. Some of it will be just like the cell phone, you can't imagine not having it.

I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, "Why would I carry my phone around?" And now you'll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone.

I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.

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.

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

I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.

I've seen people twitter in haiku only.

I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.

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.

People are watching TV, they're watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there's a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.

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

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

The future of marketing is philanthropy.

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.

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

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.

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

There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts.