56 Quotes by Dick Costolo

When youre doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do whats expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.

When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was.

Believe that if you make courageous choices, and bet on yourself, then you will have an impact.

The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.

Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.

What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?

That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.

Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

The beauty of Twitter is that more and more people are flocking to it because it's shrinking their world.