Top 35 Dick Costolo Quotes
#1. As you get ready to walk out under the bright lights of the improvisational stage of the rest of your life be bold. Don't always worry about what your next line is going to be.
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#2. The beauty of Twitter is that more and more people are flocking to it because it's shrinking their world.
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#3. Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.
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#4. What launched me toward Feedburner? Well, the Internet happened. When I saw Mosaic, I thought, 'I gotta do this.' I founded and sold a few companies. Feedburner was my fourth.
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#5. Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it even while you're having it.
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#6. What I implore you to do is believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there that you will have an impact as a result of what you do, and you don't need to know now what that will be, or how that will happen, because nobody ever does.
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#7. I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.
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#8. Authenticity is absolutely the key to a great tweet.
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#9. The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.
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#10. There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.
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#11. If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.
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#12. As a leader, you need to care deeply, deeply about your people while not worrying or really even caring about what they think about you. Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.
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#13. That's just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.
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#14. I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what's really going on.
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#15. One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I'm present. When I'm with my employees, I'm there in the moment.
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#16. Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.
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#17. One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.
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#18. When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was.
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#19. Apple is our mentor, Facebook is our enemy.
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#20. Twitter needs to continue being a good listener and recognize that the service has been redefined by lots of people, tweet by tweet, but also come up with its own priorities.
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#21. The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.
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#22. Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.
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#23. When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale.
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#24. Twitter brings you closer. I mean, we see this over and over again from our users. It brings them closer to the action. It brings them closer to their heroes.
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#25. You can choose to listen to one end of the spectrum or the other on Twitter, just like you can on television. But hopefully what we've done is given a voice to that broad middle ground.
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#26. For many people, when they come to Twitter, the language is opaque. We need to push the scaffolding to the background and bring the content forward. The media, the photos, the videos.
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#27. People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.
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#28. One of the things that amazes me about Twitter is the way it utterly eradicates artificial barriers to communication. Things like status, geopolitics and so on keep people from talking to one another. Those go away in Twitter. You see exchanges that would never happen anywhere else.
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#29. Twitter is the perfect complement to television. TV has always been social. You talk to the person you're sitting next to on the couch. You talk to the people you're - you know, at work with the next day around the proverbial water cooler.
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#30. We've recognized that Twitter is the second screen for TV, and TV is more fun with Twitter. There are a bunch of ways that we can be complementary to broadcasters.
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#32. When you are doing what you love to do, you become resilient.
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#33. Believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there, that you will have an impact, as a result of what you do. And you don't need to know now what that would be or how will it happen because no one ever does.
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#34. What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?
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#35. I think that content posted to Twitter is distributed to more platforms, services, sites, online and offline than any other services out there. Would love to see if someone can prove to me otherwise.
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