Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody. "
Biz Stone
Going
Leadership
Position
Related Quotes:
" I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions. "
Biz Stone
Opinions
Politics
Smart
" 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. "
Biz Stone
Positive
Love
Business
" 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. "
Biz Stone
Need
College
Environment
" When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource. "
Biz Stone
Creativity
Design
Perfect
" I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don't love is twits. "
Biz Stone
Love Is
Kinda
Love
" Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general. "
Biz Stone
Lot
General
Compassion
" If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios. "
Biz Stone
Good
Hating
Loving
" Doing startups is all about making mistakes. "
Biz Stone
Mistakes
Making Mistakes
Making
" I think it's a really big deal to be able to meet people outside the context of something like a conference room or someplace where everything feels like it's formal talk. "
Biz Stone
Conference
Talk
Meet
" 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. "
Biz Stone
Culture
Responsibility
Me
" Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put specific family time and events in my calendar so that precious time is dedicated and properly blocked off from any work that may try to sneak its way into my schedule. "
Biz Stone
Meaning
Treat
Family
" 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. "
Biz Stone
Flight
Idea
Birds
" I've seen people twitter in haiku only. "
Biz Stone
People
Seen
Only
" Everything I've done, I've made up. Some of that might have been right; most of it was probably wrong. "
Biz Stone
Right
Most
Everything
" I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the adventures just continue forever. They are almost like they were meant to be read out loud. "
Biz Stone
Old
Love
Like
" You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate. "
Biz Stone
You
Will
Service
" Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic. "
Biz Stone
Coworkers
Positive
Culture
" The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running. "
Biz Stone
Running
Reason
Problem
" It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star. "
Biz Stone
Stand
Stand Up
Credit
" I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact. "
Biz Stone
Impact
Believe
Positive
" I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that. "
Biz Stone
Artist
Out
Think
" If you're thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell everyone in the company; let them all in on the truth. Say, 'Listen, if this gets out, we'll probably lose the deal, so we're all in this together.' "
Biz Stone
Together
You
Truth
" 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. "
Biz Stone
Positive
World
Think
" 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. "
Biz Stone
Air
iPhone
Two