Jack Dorsey Quotes

101 Jack Dorsey Quotes

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Each time they Tweet, it sparks interaction.
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The more we share what’s happening around us, the more we understand how someone lives their life. The greater the understanding we have, the more empathy we have for each other. By and large, that reduces conflicts.
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When you have an understanding of how someone else lives, the less likely it is that you conflict with them.
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The financial world has long been missing immediacy, transparency, and approachability and this is what's needed now.
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Innovation could impact everything…
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[On electronic receipts.] What if you could actually browse the receipts?
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[On Twitter] We believe that fundamentally we are building a utility.
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It truly levels the playing field and puts all the emphasis on the content. And all the emphasis on the merit of the idea.
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If the merit of the idea is strong, it spreads really quickly no matter who you are or where you are from.
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We’ve been able to go deep rather than broad.
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We can consider 140 characters to be the full story, but it’s not. It’s just a caption. A headline for something broader.
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[In April 2013] Being anonymous is an important part of democracy. I think it’s a critical part of democracy.
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The definition of commerce is the activity between buyers and sellers.
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We were trading things before we were using language to communicate.
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Communications and the exchange of value – they’re both foundational, essential things to our civilization. When you simplify those, when you get down to the essence, you fix so many things.
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Sometimes put the idea away…
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Don’t be a jerk.
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Enjoy the moment.
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Respect people’s wishes.
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Allow endings.
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Have an amazing haircut.
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Be honest, always.
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Be kind.
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[On the three keys to Twitter’s success.] The first lesson: Draw. The most important thing you can do with an idea: get it out of your head. Second lesson: Luck. Be able to recognize when luck is happening around you. Third lesson: iteration. Originally Twitter asked ‘What's your status?’ Bonus fourth lesson: know when to stop. Sometimes put the idea away, that idea will often emerge later.
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I would always be studying a map.
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I taught myself how to program.
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I had this very rich sense of how the metropolis was living and breathing.
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We started with this very simple idea.
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[On Square in July 2011] We’re going to make it amazing.
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I really good at simplifying things. I think that’s my main strength. Taking something that’s fairly complex down to it’s essence. That’s what I love doing. That’s what I love thinking about.
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[On someone with a new idea.] The first thing is to draw it out, program it, play with it and get other people playing with it so you can get feedback right away… Once you get that feedback you know if it’s something you should pursue and give more of your attention to, or if it’s something you should put on the shelf for another day.
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Twitter in 2000 was something that was fun to play with but something I put on the shelf to play with for another day. And that day was 2006.
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Be willing to make the mistakes and realizing that something can happen later – the patience are some of the things I would advise.
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I never wanted to be an entrepreneur. I actually wanted to be Bruce Lee.
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I wanted to be a sailor, I wanted to sail the world, to navigate it.
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I wanted to be a tailor to craft products.
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I wanted to be an artist. They see the world in a very different way.
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They were going to get it all right the first time right… Open to change.
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Companies, exist and evolve over time and in fact they have multiple founding moments.
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[On a company founder.] A founder is not a job, it’s a role, it’s an attitude. And it’s something that can happen again, and again, and again. In fact it has to happen, again and again and again. Otherwise we would not move forward.
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