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