60 Quotes by Drew Houston

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.

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.

The hardest-working people don’t work hard because they’re disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.

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.

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.

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.’

I actually don’t think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.

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.

The only way to learn on a zero dollar budget is to talk to people.