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"[Insert lengthy, potentially fake sounding story here]. True story."
"I have this idea..."
"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
"Pursue your Passion"
"New York is simultaneously the best and worst of everything. Being successful here is finding all of the best parts."
"Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Nin"
"I have fun making web apps for markets that have no data. Hence, SeatGeek."
"What we do in life echoes in eternity."
"Real artists ship. - Steve Jobs"
"Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today. - Phil Connors"
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson"
"The future ain't what it used to be. - Yogi Berra"
"I go through life like a Karate Kid - Britney Spears "
"We've Only Just Begun"
"If it makes me a little bit nervous, I'm probably game."
"You get the right guys to play the right things at the right time and you got a motherfucker. - Miles Davis "
"Be excellent to each other!"
"Life is not about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw"
"No brandcuffs"
"Vision over Visibility."
"Live your dream and wear your passion"
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharial Nehru"
"Just Do It."
"I love Peter Luger, The High Line, and how NYC has transformed to be a powerful technology hub."
"I'm always doing things I don't know how to do, that's how I get to do them"
"Dream Big, You May Never Wake Up - Snoop"
"Relax!"
"Imagine, aha!, do, momentum"
"No guts, no glory"
"Only a boring person is bored by himself."
"Everything is better with a brass section or buffalo sauce."
"Eat well and prosper."
"Nothing extraordinary is ever achieved through ordinary means."
"Life is for living, not just surviving."
"Cogito ergo sum"
"Don't be afraid to look stupid. The more you are willing to look stupid and learn, the more you succeed."
"Small steps are not enough."
"Keep grinding."
"Rock star is my backup plan."
"You're doing better than you think, but not as well as you could be."
"Always Faithful"
"Be at the right place at the right time. For us, it was Facebook."
"Embrace competition. Its here to stay... and thank goodness for that."
"I am hoping that I can be known as a great engineer and entrepreneur some day, rather than a sex symbol."
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra"
"The soul of Man must quicken to creation. - T.S. Eliot"
"I want to put a ding in the universe. - Steve Jobs"
"Trust your gut."
"All I want to be is someone that makes new things and thinks about them."
"Ideas = dime/dozen. Execution = |matters|."
"Twitter is just a passing fad, interpreted scripting languages are here to stay."
"Why would you ask me that? Who wants to do the dishes?"
"It won't happen overnight. But it will happen."
"You can only expect as much as you can imagine."
"One idea at a time. Preferably one you love."
"The best answer we could come up with was, let’s make the damn thing free, and get some VC somewhere to pay for it."
"Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. - Mandela"
"I've never envied someone who led an easy life; I have envied many people who led difficult lives and led them well. - Teddy Roosevelt"
"There are some days that catch the light, days like diamonds."
"I'm your huckleberry."
"Life is uncertain. Don't sip."
"If someone’s not saying no to you everyday, you’re not pushing hard enough"
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson"
"expect nothing. earn everything."
"Create more value than you can capture - Tim O'Reilly"
"Much like myself, the Internet's been since around since the 80s."
""I make things happen, and love every minute of it."
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is. - Shirley MacLaine"
"Always keep your hands in the dirt."
"It's been real, except for the times that were fake. - Jeff Lawrence"
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it. - Pablo Picasso"
"When you assume you make an ass out of you and your investors. Show me the data."
"Twitter & Facebook aren't just communication tools. They are gateways to being social and having your voice heard."
"As you grow older, you'll realize that the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. - Zachary Scott"
"Don't dream it, be it. - Frank N. Furter"
"A major key to success in building your business is always partnerships!"
"That's a happy problem!"
"Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion."
"Luck is when preparation meets
opportunity."
"From an evolutionary perspective, the smarter the animal, the more it plays"
"If you love anything you have the capacity to love everything."
"...all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer. - Nietzsche"
"I failed my way to success. - Thomas Edison"
"Starting small is better than not starting at all."
"Most people miss opportunity when it knocks bc it comes dressed in overalls, looking suspiciously like work. - Edison"
"Do something."
"Strangers are the new black."
"I believe in a thing called love / Just listen to the rhythm of my heart."
"Oh, sweet serendipity!"
"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams"
"There is nothing wrong with sending an email at 3:00AM."
"Less talking about ideas, more actually building those ideas."
"I like to be scared at least once a week"
"pursuing passion and helping visionaries turn nothing into something."
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
"We live in the future. Advancements in neuroscience have reached new levels. Why aren't we learning things 10x faster yet?"
"You look good today."
"They are only into it to get radical, they'll never understand the spiritual side of it. -Bodhi"
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson"
"People will stare. Make it worth their while."
"There's no such thing as a free lunch. - Milton Friedman"
"Scientists are saying the future is going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted."
"The future is unwritten."
"It’s not how good you are, It’s how good you want to be - Paul Arden"
"Don't be inspired, stay inspired."
"You guys are the most annoying people on earth."
"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. - Ralph Waldo Emerson"
"Only dead fish go with the flow."
"Entry to the mind is through emotion, not logic."
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain"
"JFDI - Mark Suster, Dave Cancel, et al"
"we are all interested in the future, for that is where you and i are going to spend the rest of our lives. - woody allen "
"I have been enjoying getting immersed into the vibrant culture of Silicone "Alley."
"Think strategically. Plan tactically. Live urgently."
"fighting an uphill battle against capitalization. "
"I love helping entrepreneurs and I'm proud to be the banker in a startup t-shirt, sneakers, and a hoodie. "
"I think it's unfair Hasbro is the only company that makes Monopoly."
"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."
"If you're not the lead dog, the view is always the same."
"This is so much fun. "
"I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't."
"The brave might not live very long, but the cautious don't live at all."
"Try to give people what they would want if they knew what was possible. Or just give them what they ask for."
"You rarr what you eat"
"Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it."
"I love getting things done, and I laugh at my own jokes."
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become - Steve Jobs"
"Family first."
"Life is a journey - every day should be lived as a story worth being told."