You only have to be right once.

If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

Where you live matters. Whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle, too - follow them. If the real action is happening somewhere else, move.

You think about who needs Dropbox, and it's just about anybody with a pulse.

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.