Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard. Drew Houston More Quotes by Drew Houston More Quotes From Drew Houston Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once. Drew Houston businessmotivationalinspirational 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 planningstudydream 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. Every day we’re writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that’s made all the difference. Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward. Drew Houston practicewritingadventure 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. Drew Houston worryinspirationalyears 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 engineeringmarketingbook 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 realmistakeschool Learn early, learn often. Drew Houston Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward. Drew Houston adventureinspirationalgiving 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 focusbrokencan-do You become the average of the five people you hang out with. Drew Houston growthaveragepeople 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. Drew Houston readingbookthinking 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. Drew Houston importantsuccessfulpeople 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 doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don’t settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them. Drew Houston circlesheroinspirational 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 a bust, I'll get a six-figure job at whatever company.' Risk is this outmoded idea - your parents might not understand that, but taking these types of risks doesn't have a downside. Drew Houston worst-case-scenariojobsideas You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem. Drew Houston problemendsdoors If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong. Drew Houston ifs 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 and wanted to redefine how the world communicates [by creating] a billion-dollar company. He didn't. Drew Houston zuckerbergcreatingbusiness 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 hard-workfuninspirational 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 datacarmean 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 and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.' Drew Houston inspirationalcardsneeds
