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"expect nothing. earn everything."
"Small steps are not enough."
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is. - Shirley MacLaine"
"JFDI - Mark Suster, Dave Cancel, et al"
"Why would you ask me that? Who wants to do the dishes?"
"Only a boring person is bored by himself."
"Only dead fish go with the flow."
"We've Only Just Begun"
"Life is not about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw"
"There's no such thing as a free lunch. - Milton Friedman"
"The soul of Man must quicken to creation. - T.S. Eliot"
"Less talking about ideas, more actually building those ideas."
"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"
"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. - Yeats"
"fighting an uphill battle against capitalization. "
"pursuing passion and helping visionaries turn nothing into something."
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson"
"Always Faithful"
"Real artists ship. - Steve Jobs"
"Life is for living, not just surviving."
"All I want to be is someone that makes new things and thinks about them."
"Embrace competition. Its here to stay... and thank goodness for that."
"I have been enjoying getting immersed into the vibrant culture of Silicone "Alley."
"Do something."
"Most people miss opportunity when it knocks bc it comes dressed in overalls, looking suspiciously like work. - Edison"
"Entry to the mind is through emotion, not logic."
"The brave might not live very long, but the cautious don't live at all."
"I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't."
"Keep grinding."
"If you're not the lead dog, the view is always the same."
""I make things happen, and love every minute of it."
"Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today. - Phil Connors"
"Imagine, aha!, do, momentum"
"Nothing extraordinary is ever achieved through ordinary means."
"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"
"Strangers are the new black."
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson"
"As you grow older, you'll realize that the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. - Zachary Scott"
"Twitter is just a passing fad, interpreted scripting languages are here to stay."
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson"
"New York is simultaneously the best and worst of everything. Being successful here is finding all of the best parts."
"If you love anything you have the capacity to love everything."
"It’s not how good you are, It’s how good you want to be - Paul Arden"
"I think it's unfair Hasbro is the only company that makes Monopoly."
"Twitter & Facebook aren't just communication tools. They are gateways to being social and having your voice heard."
"What we do in life echoes in eternity."
"The future is unwritten."
"The future ain't what it used to be. - Yogi Berra"
"I'm your huckleberry."
"Rock star is my backup plan."
"Eat well and prosper."
"Oh, sweet serendipity!"
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become - Steve Jobs"
"Always keep your hands in the dirt."
"Be excellent to each other!"
"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 is nothing wrong with sending an email at 3:00AM."
"You can only expect as much as you can imagine."
"They are only into it to get radical, they'll never understand the spiritual side of it. -Bodhi"
"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
"One idea at a time. Preferably one you love."
"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 "
"If it makes me a little bit nervous, I'm probably game."
"Try to give people what they would want if they knew what was possible. Or just give them what they ask for."
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
"It's been real, except for the times that were fake. - Jeff Lawrence"
"Pursue your Passion"
"This is so much fun. "
"Be at the right place at the right time. For us, it was Facebook."
"Life is uncertain. Don't sip."
"Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Nin"
"Ideas = dime/dozen. Execution = |matters|."
"You get the right guys to play the right things at the right time and you got a motherfucker. - Miles Davis "
"I believe in a thing called love / Just listen to the rhythm of my heart."
"Starting small is better than not starting at all."
"Don't be inspired, stay inspired."
"If someone’s not saying no to you everyday, you’re not pushing hard enough"
"Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it."
"Vision over Visibility."
"I have this idea..."
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain"
"Relax!"
"Life is a journey - every day should be lived as a story worth being told."
"I love helping entrepreneurs and I'm proud to be the banker in a startup t-shirt, sneakers, and a hoodie. "
"Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. - Mandela"
"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams"
"You just have to accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue. - David Brent "
"There are some days that catch the light, days like diamonds."
"Luck is when preparation meets
opportunity."
"It won't happen overnight. But it will happen."
"Trust your gut."
"We live in the future. Advancements in neuroscience have reached new levels. Why aren't we learning things 10x faster yet?"
"I am hoping that I can be known as a great engineer and entrepreneur some day, rather than a sex symbol."
"Scientists are saying the future is going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted."
"I have fun making web apps for markets that have no data. Hence, SeatGeek."
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it. - Pablo Picasso"
"You look good today."
"I love getting things done, and I laugh at my own jokes."
"Don't dream it, be it. - Frank N. Furter"
"Live your dream and wear your passion"
"No brandcuffs"
"From an evolutionary perspective, the smarter the animal, the more it plays"
"Cogito ergo sum"
"Much like myself, the Internet's been since around since the 80s."
"Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion."
"Create more value than you can capture - Tim O'Reilly"
"...all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer. - Nietzsche"
"That's a happy problem!"
"Just Do It."
"You guys are the most annoying people on earth."
"I go through life like a Karate Kid - Britney Spears "
"Family first."
"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."
"I'm always doing things I don't know how to do, that's how I get to do them"
"Think strategically. Plan tactically. Live urgently."
"When you assume you make an ass out of you and your investors. Show me the data."
"It's amazing what happens when you decide to unplug the internet, take out your headphones, and see where the quiet takes you."
"No guts, no glory"
"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."
"Dream Big, You May Never Wake Up - Snoop"
"[Insert lengthy, potentially fake sounding story here]. True story."
"You're doing better than you think, but not as well as you could be."
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra"
"You rarr what you eat"
"People will stare. Make it worth their while."
"I want to put a ding in the universe. - 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"
"I failed my way to success. - Thomas Edison"
"I love Peter Luger, The High Line, and how NYC has transformed to be a powerful technology hub."