161 Quotes by Biz Stone

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.

You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.