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