Drew Houston Quotes

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• When you’re in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you’re not swerving around and…
• Even if it doesn't work out, the experience is so valuable to so many employers that your worst case scenario is, 'Ok, so that was…
• Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to how…
• Learn early, learn often.
• You become the average of the five people you hang out with.
• We've had customers from the beginning. The reason people use Dropbox is because they really love it. We think more about who is going to…
• No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day…
• 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.
• Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.
• The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.
• Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.
• Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're…
• You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them…
• 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…
• You have to adopt a mindset that says, 'Okay, in three months, I'll need to know all this stuff, and then in six months there's…
• Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects…
• 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…
• Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
• No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.
• Dropbox is my life.

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