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