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.
More Quotes by Dick Costolo
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.
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.
One of the great things about Silicon Valley is, irrespective of how competitive you might be with another company or how closely you might be working with that company, there's a great sort of give and take, and camaraderie from - between - some of the executives in the valley and some of the other investors in the valley.
If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.
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.
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.