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