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