Dick Costolo Quotes

The beauty of Twitter is that more and more people are flocking to it because it's shrinking their world.

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

When you are doing what you love to do, you become resilient.

Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.

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.

The key is to just get on the bike, and the key to getting on the bike… is to stop thinking about ‘there are a bunch of reasons I might fall off’ and just hop on and peddle the damned thing. You can pick up a map, a tire pump, and better footwear along the way.

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.

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.

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.

Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.

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.

Authenticity is absolutely the key to a great tweet.

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.

That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.

Believe that if you make courageous choices, and bet on yourself, then you will have an impact.

When youre doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do whats expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.

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. I know I sound like my grandfather right now. We didn't have teeth! There were no questions marks, we just had words! What was I talking about? The Internet...Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.

Twitter is a global town square.

Apple is our mentor, Facebook is our enemy.

What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?

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.

Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.