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