If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying and planning and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started. Drew Houston View this quote
The hardest-working people don’t work hard because they’re disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun. Drew Houston
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There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I’m almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable. Drew Houston
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
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. Drew Houston
A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn’t know it wasn’t supposed to be possible. Drew Houston
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. Drew Houston
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. Drew Houston
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. Drew Houston
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. Drew Houston
There are 30,000 days in your life.’ At first I didn’t think much of it, but on a whim I tabbed over to the calculator. I type in 24 times 365 and – oh my God, I’m almost 9,000 days down. What the hell have I been doing? Drew Houston
American computer scientist
March 4th, 1983
