Drew Houston Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: Their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way.”

“Where you live matters. 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. If the real action is happening somewhere else, move.”

“You only have to be right once.”

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

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

“No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.”