Top 34 Drew Houston Quotes

#1. You think about who needs Dropbox, and it's just about anybody with a pulse.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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

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#5. 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.

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

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#7. There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.

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#8. You only have to be right once.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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 hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

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#11. One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.

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#12. Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That's, like, two billion people.

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#13. No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

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

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

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#16. People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.

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

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#18. With something like Dropbox, it was immediately like, 'Wow, this is literally something that anyone with an Internet connection could use.' Everyone needs something like this; they just don't realize it yet.

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#19. Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research.

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

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#21. A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

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#22. Dropbox is my life.

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

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#24. I'd be like, alright, I don't know anything about sales. So I would search for sales on Amazon, get the three top-rated books and just go at it. I did that for marketing, finance, product, engineering. If there was one thing that was really important for me, that was it.

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

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#26. You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

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#27. 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.

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#28. What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.

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#29. 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.

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

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#31. 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.

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#32. People do not choose Dropbox because it has this much space or gigabytes. They choose it for the experience.

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#33. 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 going to be a whole other set of things to know - again in a year, in five years.' The tools will change, the knowledge will change, the worries will change.

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#34. Her delicate brows drew together. "As a rancher, surely he knows how to ride a horse."
"He can ride just fine. He took it into his head that he could break this rangy mustang, and it broke him instead."
-Houston and Amelia

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