Biz Stone
Biz Stone
Christopher Isaac "Biz" Stone is a co-founder of Twitter, Inc and also helped to create and launch Xanga, Odeo, The Obvious Corporation and Medium. In 2012, Stone co-founded a start-up called Jelly Industries where he serves as CEO. The release of the Jelly app, a Q&A platform that relies on images, was officially announced in January 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth10 March 1974
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist,
I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.
I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
People first. Technology second.
Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.
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.
Creativity is a renewable resource.
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.