Top 70 Biz Stone Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Biz Stone

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2. “Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.”

— Biz Stone

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

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4. “If you take an idea and just hold it in your head, you unconsciously start to do things that advance you toward that goal.”

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5. “Willingness to take risks is the path to success.”

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6. “Success isn’t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren’t truly emotionally invested in your work.”

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7. “Constraint inspires creativity. When our backs are against the wall we come up with some amazing things.”

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8. “There’s no such thing as a superhero, but together we can spin the world in a new direction.”

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9. “Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.”

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10. “Opportunity is manufactured.”

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11. “In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.”

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12. “Creativity comes from constraint.”

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13. “If you make the opportunity, you’ll be first in position to take advantage of it.”

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14. “Embrace your constraints.”

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15. “Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.”

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16. “In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.”

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

— Biz Stone

18. “The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.”

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19. “You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.”

— Biz Stone

20. “People first. Technology second.”

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21. “I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.”

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

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23. “I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “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.”

— Biz Stone

26. “A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.”

— Biz Stone

27. “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

28. “Constraint inspires creativity.”

— Biz Stone

29. “Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.”

— Biz Stone

30. “A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.”

— Biz Stone

31. “You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.”

— Biz Stone

32. “Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.”

— Biz Stone

33. “The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.”

— Biz Stone

34. “Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.”

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35. “When a plane lands in the Hudson and there’s a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That’s it. The water is still splashing. Here’s the photo of the thing.”

— Biz Stone

36. “The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.”

— Biz Stone

37. “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

38. “People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.”

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39. “I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.”

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40. “Doing startups is all about making mistakes.”

— Biz Stone

41. “With Twitter, it’s as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.”

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42. “We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.”

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43. “I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.”

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44. “When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.”

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45. “It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.”

— Biz Stone

46. “I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.”

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47. “There’s a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People’s ideas cross with other people’s thoughts.”

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48. “We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.”

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49. “I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas.”

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50. “I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.”

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