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