Top 100 Biz Quotes
#1. I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.
Biz Stone
#3. Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.
Jesse Schell
#4. I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.
Joe Rogan
#5. Your goals should be bigger than your ego,
Biz Stone
#6. Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.
Biz Stone
#7. I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
Albert Brooks
#8. In a job where you're on a computer all day, and we cater lunch and we put snacks in the kitchen, well, we all started gaining weight, even though we try to pick healthy stuff, but inevitably you find the cashews.
Biz Stone
#9. I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
Biz Stone
#10. Essentially, you become a top tweet because so many people are engaging with that tweet. They're either retweeting it, or they're favoriting it; they're doing one of many things to indicate to us that that tweet is interesting and engaging to users.
Biz Stone
#11. 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.
Biz Stone
#13. But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.
Rob Sheffield
#14. The international limit on mobile texting, or SMS, is 160 characters. We wanted Twitter to be entirely readable and writable on every single one of the over five billion mobile phones on this planet, because they all have SMS built in. So we said it has to be within 160 characters, all the tweets.
Biz Stone
#15. You might be a redneck if your sophisticated show-biz cousin is a rodeo clown.
Jeff Foxworthy
#16. I thought about tennis. But the more I thought about the whole thing - lessons, equipment, going to the courts - I said screw it, I'm just going to go buy a pair of sneakers and go running.
Biz Stone
#17. You can provide a short-format content, and it can grow, and it can spread virally across the entire Twitter system, and it can contain within it a link to something that's much longer, that's a long essay or that's a video.
Biz Stone
#18. We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.
Biz Stone
#19. This game is lame, the music comes second
So you can save that stupidness for all them artists you checkin.
Popularity don't last long, I'm in it for classics,
Cause the other side of the biz is fake and it's plastic.
Craig G
#20. Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
Biz Stone
#21. Constraint inspires creativity
Biz Stone
#22. The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
Biz Stone
#23. At least half the job of CEO is communication - because of human nature. People fear what they don't know. If the board wasn't hearing that things were going well, they assumed that things must be going badly.
Biz Stone
#24. The smallest, earliest gifts forever alter your trajectory for doing good. This is what I mean by the compound interest of altruism. Start early to maximize the compound interest in your efforts.
Biz Stone
#25. Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it.
Biz Stone
#26. I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas them up and drive them to everyone's house. I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn't sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
Biz Stone
#27. My big fear is that I'll put down so many people, I'll have to leave show biz.
Andy Kindler
#28. 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
#29. Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
Biz Stone
#30. 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.
Biz Stone
#31. I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
Biz Stone
#32. We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn't really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren't as interested in that.
Biz Stone
#33. 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.
Biz Stone
#34. Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
Biz Stone
#35. People first. Technology second.
Biz Stone
#36. Just don't go out fighting. I don't need to know where you're going, that's your biz. But if you get yourself killed, I got ninety-nine problems and you're the biggest one of them. Rehv to John
J.R. Ward
#37. My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.
Biz Stone
#38. My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.
Micky Dolenz
#39. The ability to listen,watch and draw lessons from obvious and unlikely places breeds originality and growth
Biz Stone
#40. When people ask Biz about his wealth, he tells them that money rarely changes people; it often just magnifies who they really are.
Nick Bilton
#41. There's a long-standing debate in the media biz over whether the news outlets should give the public what it wants, or what it needs. This debate presupposes that media execs actually know what it wants or needs. And that there actually is a unitary "public.
Brooke Gladstone
#42. I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
Biz Stone
#43. 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.
Biz Stone
#44. I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.
Biz Stone
#45. The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
Biz Stone
#46. Dixie?" "Yeah." "You ever try to crack an AI?" "Sure. I flatlined. First time. I was larkin', jacked up real high, out by Rio heavy commerce sector. Big biz, multinationals, Government of Brazil lit up like a Christmas tree.
William Gibson
#47. When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
Biz Stone
#48. 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
#49. Remember when friends was friends, and LL had a Benz?
And cell phones and beepers was the new trends?
When Koch was the Mayor and Reagan was the Pres?
Biz Markie
#50. The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.
Christopher Judge
#51. 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
#52. 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.
Biz Stone
#53. 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.
Biz Stone
#54. Hear it when i get biz for K-Von, I'm pledgin, died, on 104 Northern Boulevard corona queens legend
Kool G Rap
#55. I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie.
Big Smo
#56. 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.
Biz Stone
#57. Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.
Paul Feig
#58. I just stepped off the show biz bus and changed gears.
Michael Ontkean
#59. I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to a party at a hotel afterwards where the speakers were blasting 'Shakedown,' a song from the movie. That felt like a show biz moment to me.
Gilbert Gottfried
#60. Our promise was to deliver value before profit, ...
Biz Stone
#62. Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.
Tom Rachman
#63. Failure was part of the path. It was worth the risk. In fact, it was a critical component of growth. By sharing it with our users, we were showing our ultimate confidence in ourselves and our success. We weren't quitting, and we hoped our faith would inspire theirs.
Biz Stone
#64. I think when people twitter 20 or 30 times per day, that's too much. They are boxing everyone else out, and people stop following them because they need a break.
Biz Stone
#65. I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12.
Bill Nye
#66. Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
Biz Stone
#67. In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.
Biz Stone
#68. If we admit it or not, skiing is a little bit of show biz.
Willy Bogner Jr.
#69. Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
Biz Stone
#70. If we probe what's behind our assumptions, what we find isn't knowledge or wisdom. It's fear. We're afraid that other people's ideas will make us look less than. We're afraid that if we make a change, a product won't come in on time.
Biz Stone
#71. I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.
Julia Sweeney
#72. I been to many malls from state to state,But I've never been in, say, one this great.I hate to say, about the other shopping centers that's left,But the Albee Square Mall is the doo-doo-def!
Biz Markie
#73. Constraint inspired creativity. Blank spaces are difficult to fill, but the smallest prompt can send us in fantastic new directions
Biz Stone
#74. They say I look and sound ugly but I don't be carin.
Biz Markie
#75. Plain hard work is good and important, but it is ideas that drive us, as individuals, companies, nations, and a global community. Creativity is what makes us unique, inspired, and fulfilled.
Biz Stone
#76. The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.
Eric Burdon
#77. I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, your girlfriend or not. I'm not gonna say that there's not that special girl out there. But I'm in the music biz, and I'm focused on the music.
Prince Royce
#78. I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.
Cobie Smulders
#79. Leadership responsibility: If you own a biz, you're the head of the org. Good or bad, your company will LOOK and ACT like you do.
Dave Ramsey
#80. We did Twitter, and Twitter grew so fast, and in 2006 we spun it out into Twitter, Inc.
Biz Stone
#81. I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.
John Orloff
#82. 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
#83. Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better,
Biz Stone
#84. Damn it feels good to see people up on it.
Biz Markie
#85. I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
Biz Stone
#86. Everything I've done, I've made up. Some of that might have been right; most of it was probably wrong.
Biz Stone
#87. 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
#88. I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.
Biz Stone
#89. There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.
Biz Stone
#90. I still blog, but I do think blogging will become obsolete, as there are more ways of interacting on the Web with low barriers to entry for people to engage and participate.
Biz Stone
#91. Hell yeah! Twitter was proof that leaderless self-organizing systems could be true agents of change.
Biz Stone
#92. I realized that a company can build a business, do good in society, and have fun. These three goals can run alongside one another, without being dominated by the bottom line.
Biz Stone
#93. Every time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that individual story alone, and it sometimes feels as if readers are looking for the same style/approach from the same writer over and over again, which hasn't helped me in the publishing biz.
Scott Bradfield
#94. We put boogers on our fingers, then shake your hand.
Biz Markie
#95. If you take an idea and just hold it in your head, you unconsciously start to do things that advance you toward that goal.
Biz Stone
#96. If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
Biz Stone
#97. The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.
Biz Stone
#98. 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.
Biz Stone
#99. We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
Biz Stone
#100. Butch: -I hear ya. No one's biz but yours. One question though
Vishous: -What
Butch: -When the females tie you down, do they paint your toe-nails and shit? Or just do your makeup? Wait ... they tickle your pits with feather, right?
J.R. Ward
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