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