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"Relax!"
"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"
"Be at the right place at the right time. For us, it was Facebook."
"fighting an uphill battle against capitalization. "
"You guys are the most annoying people on earth."
"No guts, no glory"
"That's a happy problem!"
"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams"
"Twitter is just a passing fad, interpreted scripting languages are here to stay."
"Twitter & Facebook aren't just communication tools. They are gateways to being social and having your voice heard."
"...all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer. - Nietzsche"
"Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it."
"I'm always doing things I don't know how to do, that's how I get to do them"
"When you assume you make an ass out of you and your investors. Show me the data."
"I want to put a ding in the universe. - Steve Jobs"
"You get the right guys to play the right things at the right time and you got a motherfucker. - Miles Davis "
"JFDI - Mark Suster, Dave Cancel, et al"
"From an evolutionary perspective, the smarter the animal, the more it plays"
"I'm your huckleberry."
"Only dead fish go with the flow."
"Be excellent to each other!"
""I make things happen, and love every minute of it."
"Don't be afraid to look stupid. The more you are willing to look stupid and learn, the more you succeed."
"The brave might not live very long, but the cautious don't live at all."
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is. - Shirley MacLaine"
"Everything is better with a brass section or buffalo sauce."
"[Insert lengthy, potentially fake sounding story here]. True story."
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson"
"Keep grinding."
"Vision over Visibility."
"Life is for living, not just surviving."
"I have been enjoying getting immersed into the vibrant culture of Silicone "Alley."
"Entry to the mind is through emotion, not logic."
"You rarr what you eat"
"Create more value than you can capture - Tim O'Reilly"
"Oh, sweet serendipity!"
"No brandcuffs"
"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"
"Trust your gut."
"If it makes me a little bit nervous, I'm probably game."
"Life is uncertain. Don't sip."
"I failed my way to success. - Thomas Edison"
"Just Do It."
"I am hoping that I can be known as a great engineer and entrepreneur some day, rather than a sex symbol."
"Rock star is my backup plan."
"pursuing passion and helping visionaries turn nothing into something."
"Pursue your Passion"
"Always keep your hands in the dirt."
"I think it's unfair Hasbro is the only company that makes Monopoly."
"Try to give people what they would want if they knew what was possible. Or just give them what they ask for."
"Only a boring person is bored by himself."
"Much like myself, the Internet's been since around since the 80s."
"Life is not about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw"
"If you love anything you have the capacity to love everything."
"Most people miss opportunity when it knocks bc it comes dressed in overalls, looking suspiciously like work. - Edison"
"Real artists ship. - Steve Jobs"
"Eat well and prosper."
"You're doing better than you think, but not as well as you could be."
"Embrace competition. Its here to stay... and thank goodness for that."
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson"
"I go through life like a Karate Kid - Britney Spears "
"I love Peter Luger, The High Line, and how NYC has transformed to be a powerful technology hub."
"expect nothing. earn everything."
"Starting small is better than not starting at all."
"Live your dream and wear your passion"
"Life is a journey - every day should be lived as a story worth being told."
"New York is simultaneously the best and worst of everything. Being successful here is finding all of the best parts."
"There is nothing wrong with sending an email at 3:00AM."
"Do something."
"If you're not the lead dog, the view is always the same."
"Less talking about ideas, more actually building those ideas."
"One idea at a time. Preferably one you love."
"It won't happen overnight. But it will happen."
"Don't be inspired, stay inspired."
"I love helping entrepreneurs and I'm proud to be the banker in a startup t-shirt, sneakers, and a hoodie. "
"Scientists are saying the future is going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted."
"Strangers are the new black."
"I believe in a thing called love / Just listen to the rhythm of my heart."
"I have this idea..."
"Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today. - Phil Connors"
"I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't."
"We've Only Just Begun"
"A major key to success in building your business is always partnerships!"
"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. - Ralph Waldo Emerson"
"There are some days that catch the light, days like diamonds."
"What we do in life echoes in eternity."
"The future is unwritten."
"As you grow older, you'll realize that the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. - Zachary Scott"
"Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion."
"Cogito ergo sum"
"It's been real, except for the times that were fake. - Jeff Lawrence"
"The future ain't what it used to be. - Yogi Berra"
"Small steps are not enough."
"I have fun making web apps for markets that have no data. Hence, SeatGeek."
"Luck is when preparation meets
opportunity."
"There's no such thing as a free lunch. - Milton Friedman"
"Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Nin"
"Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. - Mandela"
"Always Faithful"
"Nothing extraordinary is ever achieved through ordinary means."
"You look good today."
"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."
"Family first."
"We live in the future. Advancements in neuroscience have reached new levels. Why aren't we learning things 10x faster yet?"
"They are only into it to get radical, they'll never understand the spiritual side of it. -Bodhi"
"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 "
"People will stare. Make it worth their while."
"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"
"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra"
"Dream Big, You May Never Wake Up - Snoop"
"Why would you ask me that? Who wants to do the dishes?"
"Think strategically. Plan tactically. Live urgently."
"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"
"Ideas = dime/dozen. Execution = |matters|."
"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."
"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"
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become - Steve Jobs"
"Don't dream it, be it. - Frank N. Furter"
"If someone’s not saying no to you everyday, you’re not pushing hard enough"
"Imagine, aha!, do, momentum"
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it. - Pablo Picasso"
"All I want to be is someone that makes new things and thinks about them."
"This is so much fun. "
"You can only expect as much as you can imagine."