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