Drew Houston Quotes

If you're having fun doing what you're doing, you're gonna really want to work hard at it.

Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

I love being challenged, goofing off, and lots of passion.

Working with someone who's really passionate about it is great, because you become passionate, and then it's fun; it's not work anymore.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.

Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.

I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things.

I think anyone's success depends on working hard, Industriousness and Enthusiasm, enjoying what you are doing. You can't work your best if you're not enjoying what you are doing. No way you can force yourself to.

You're not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don't love what you're doing. If it's not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.

We almost have to force or drive ourselves to work hard if we are to reach our potential. If we don't enjoy what we do, we won't be able to push as hard as we need to push for as long as we need to push to achieve our best. However, if we enjoy what we do and if we're enthusiastic about it, we'll do it better and come closer to becoming the best we can be.

You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.

Throw yourself wholeheartedly into your work; the more you enjoy it, the better you get.

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

Beyonce was just always full-out. She's like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, just do it. Just like Nike: 'Just Do It.'

I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.

I have the same attitude with work - I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know.

The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.