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