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

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

Embrace your constraints.

Opportunity is manufactured

Success isn't guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren't truly emotionally invested in your work.

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.

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

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

The future of marketing is philanthropy,

I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.

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

I mean, even when it's really simple, there's so much amazing beautiful creativity that can come out of that.

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

People first. Technology second.

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

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

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.

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

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

Your goals should be bigger than your ego,

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.

Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.

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

The ability to listen,watch and draw lessons from obvious and unlikely places breeds originality and growth

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

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.

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

If this book were limited to 140 pages, it would end here.

With Twitter, it's as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.

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

We did Twitter, and Twitter grew so fast, and in 2006 we spun it out into Twitter, Inc.

I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

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.

Embrace constraint. What you get in return is the art and craft of editing your own life, weeding out what is and isn't necessary.

Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it.

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

Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist,

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.

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

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

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.

At Twitter, mobile is in our DNA ... For us, it's all about mobile, and it always has been.

Constraint inspires creativity

Everything I've done, I've made up. Some of that might have been right; most of it was probably wrong.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

Our promise was to deliver value before profit, ...

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

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

Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality.

We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.

I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.

...It doesn't pay to act bulletproof. Nobody is flawless and when you act as if you are, it always rings false.

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.

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better,

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

Constraint inspired creativity. Blank spaces are difficult to fill, but the smallest prompt can send us in fantastic new directions

I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.

Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.

I've seen people twitter in haiku only.

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.

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

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

I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.

I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

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

Creativity comes from constraint.

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

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.

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

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

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