Drew Houston Quotes

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

It's not going to be enough, until I get out of my chair and walk.

I don't have a lot of time for people who don't take care of their own problems. Everything that needs to be done takes effort.

The lockdown, in general, left me with a sense of needing to become more independent and instead of being intimidated, I decided to do the engineering on some of my new releases.

I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.

That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

You can't lay back and wait for somebody else to do it. And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Reading is good, action is better.

Be a doer and not a critic.

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

God helps those who help themselves.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

God helps those who help themselves.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'

The gods help them that help themselves.

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.