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