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