Drew Houston quotes

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. (Drew Houston)
Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward. View quote
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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. View quote
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Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once. View quote
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If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 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. (Drew Houston)