Drew Houston Quotes

Be willing to take on career risks.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks.

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

I'm really a self-made businesswoman.

Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

It would be absolute folly to rule myself out of any job.

From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries

I did come to realize that getting your first job is hard, but it's not nearly as hard as getting your seventh job. That is hard. That's when you really have to prove it to people.

A job leads to a job, just like anything else, and it became apparent that this was probably what I was going to keep doing.

Great careers are getting easier to find and audition for, but harder to keep.

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

And every job that I had was a stepping stone to my next job and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously.

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.

One of the reasons why I have no regular job, and why I have not had a regular job for years, is quite simply that my ideas differ from those of the gentlemen who hand out the jobs to individuals who think as they do. It is not just a question of my appearance, which is what they have sanctimoniously reproached me with. It goes deeper, I do assure you.

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.