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