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

~Drew Houston

Topics: Adventure Ever Freedom Give Go Instead Life Make Perfect Trying Upward Your Yourself

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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

Topics: Doing Dream Getting Getting Started Lifetime Planning Ready Should Spend Started Studying You

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

~Drew Houston

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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.

~Drew Houston

Topics: About Any Book Concepts Get Going Good Good Manager Guitar Guitarist Important Make Management Manager More Most Reading Than The Most Important Thinking Will You

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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.

~Drew Houston

Topics: About Ball Chasing Crazy Dog Eyes Gets Go Happiest Just Know Leash Little Love Matters Me Most Obsessed Off People Remind Snaps Solving Something Successful Successful People Tennis Them Think Through Way Whatever I Think

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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.

~Drew Houston

Topics: Go Going Moon Right Rocket Shoot To The Moon You

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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.

~Drew Houston

Topics: About Audience Casual Chain Chocolate Crowd Demo Demonstration Dozen Easter Eggs Kicked Like Looked Nod Normal Observer Off Office Product Put Rain Reaction References Space Tailored Tongue-In-Cheek Video Were

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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. 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.

~Drew Houston

Topics: Adventure All The Difference Almost Biggest Buttons Comfortable Day Days Difference Down Every Every Day Failing Few Getting Life Made More Practice Realized Risk Rounds Story Too Wanted Words Writing Your

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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.

~Drew Houston

Topics: Actually Ask Assumptions Based Basic Could Doing Few Few People Five Going Instead Magic Magic Wand Make Now People Really Themselves Very Wand Want Wave Would Years You Yourself

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

~Drew Houston

Topics: Born Ceo Tells You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: March 4th, 1983

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