70 Quotes by Jack Dorsey

I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.

It’s empowering to be asked to look at what’s possible, not told how to do it.

I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

Great companies don’t just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments.

I spend 90% of my time with people who don’t report to me, which also allows for serendipity, since I’m walking around the office all the time. You don’t have to schedule serendipity. It just happens.

Life happens at intersections.

Starting anything is a roller coaster with the highest highs and lowest lows.

The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.

Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.