Biz Stone

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

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.

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

We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.

You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.

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

If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.

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.

It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.

If I had one piece of advice to tell an entrepreneur, I always say, 'You have to have emotional investment in what you're working on.' That's what we lacked at Odeo.

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.