Drew Houston Quotes

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

The only way you'll find out something is to fail because you only need one success to be successful.

As long as you're clear about your goal, failures don't mean it's not going to work.

Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

If you're afraid of failing you won't get very far

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.

Failure is part of the process of success.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

You have to be willing to fail, because you're not going to make every shot.