Be Social Quotes

Your Twitter Profile is your business card.

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

Social Media brands faster than any other existing Marketing plan and for much cheaper!

Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system.

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.

But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.

Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.