Quotes from Biz Stone

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

Your goals should be bigger than your ego,

Constraint inspires creativity

Opportunity is manufactured

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.

Once true passion hits you, you can recognize all the times in your life when you were chasing the wrong dream. And after you´ve experienced that sustained fulfillment , you´ll never want to settle for anything else

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

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

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

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

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

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things

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

Larry Wall, who created the programming language Perl, once said, "When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks; they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass." Hashtags, @replies, and retweets emerged in just that way.

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.

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

We lacked something that is the key to a successful startup, and it was bigger than sound quality. It was emotional investment. If you don't love what you're building, if you're not an avid user yourself, then you will most likely fail even if you're doing everything else right.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it. Rules and conventions are important for schools, businesses, and society in general, but you should never follow them blindly.

Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality. We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.