Drew Houston Quotes

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.

You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.

Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

Learn early, learn often.

You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.

You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.

A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.

The only way to learn on a zero dollar budget is to talk to people

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.