Biz Stone Quotes

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

~ Biz Stone

Hell yeah! Twitter was proof that leaderless self-organizing systems could be true agents of change.

~ Biz Stone

At least half the job of CEO is communication - because of human nature. People fear what they don't know. If the board wasn't hearing that things were going well, they assumed that things must be going badly.

~ Biz Stone

Once true passion hits you, you can recognize all the times in your life you were chasing the wrong dream. And after you've experienced that sustained fulfillment, you'll never want to settle for anything less.

~ Biz Stone

Constraint inspires creativity

~ Biz Stone

Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it. Rules and conventions are important for schools, businesses, and society in general, but you should never follow them blindly.

~ Biz Stone

The point of school, after all, isn’t to do homework. The point of school is to learn. It was a mistake to assume that teachers—or anyone else, for that matter—automatically knew what was best for me.Rules are there to help us—to create a culture, to streamline productivity, and to promote success. But we’re not computers that need to be programmed. If you approach your bosses or colleagues with respect, and your goals are in alignment, there’s often room for a little customization and flexibility. And on the other side, those in positions of power shouldn’t force people to adhere to a plan for the sake of protocol. The solution, always, is to listen carefully—to your own needs and to those of the people around you.

~ Biz Stone

Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality.We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.

~ Biz Stone

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.

~ Biz Stone

When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.

~ Biz Stone

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things

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

~ Biz Stone

There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.

~ Biz Stone

My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

~ Biz Stone

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

~ Biz Stone

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

~ Biz Stone

I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.

~ Biz Stone

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