|
Quote |
Author |
Company |
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Success is 99% failure. |
Sochiro Honda |
Honda Motor Co. |
|
To
encourage people to innovate
more, you have to make it safe
for them to fail. |
Michael
Dell |
Dell Inc. |
|
Don't be afraid to make a
mistake. But make sure you don't
make the same mistake twice. |
Akio Morita |
Sony |
|
An essential aspect of
creativity is not being afraid to fail. |
Edwin Land |
Polaroid |
|
Learning from mistakes and
constantly
improving products is
a key in all successful
companies.
Listening to
customers is a big part of that
effort. You have to study what
customers say about their
problems with your products and
stay tuned into what they want,
extrapolating from leading-edge
buyers to predict future
requirements. |
Bill Gates |
Microsoft |
|
Real motivation comes from
within. People have to be given
the freedom to succeed or fail. |
Gordon Forward |
Norbord |
|
The idea that failure is okay is
ridiculous. I am not going to go
around the company and reward
someone for failing. But here at
Schwab we differentiate between
noble failure and stupid
failure. |
David Pottruck |
Charles
Schwab |
|
Playing it safe. Following the
rules. They seem like the best
ways to avoid failure. Alas,
that pattern is awfully
dangerous. The current marketing
"rules" will ultimately lead to
failure. In a crowded
marketplace, fitting in is
failing. In a busy marketplace,
not
standing out is the same as
being invisible...
More |
Seth Godin |
Squidoo |
|
The
organization of tomorrow will
demand mistakes and failures. It
is only by trying lots of
initiatives that we can improve
our chances that one of them
will be a star. |
Deepak Seethi |
AT&T |
|
Give people freedom to make
mistakes. If you are a military
commander, you tell your troops,
"Make a mistake and you're
dead." But in business, you can
make a mistake and have the
chance to learn, regroup, and
try again – all the wiser from
your experience. |
Moshe Levy |
Trans-Israel Highway |
|
Commit yourself to
taking enough risks that you
will fail some of the time. If
you’re not failing, we’re not
doing something sufficiently
difficult or creative.
Uncreative Person: 10 Lack-Ofs |
Scott Berkun |
|
|
Life itself is a process of
trial and error... And those
people who make no mistakes are
those who make nothing. |
Alfred P. Sloan |
General Motors |
|
Failure is simply the
opportunity to begin again,
this time more intelligently. |
Henry Ford |
Ford Motor |
|
You
don't learn to walk by following
rules. You learn by doing, and
by falling over. |
Richard Branson |
Virgin Group |
|
My motto is, "Always make new
mistakes." There's no shame in
making a mistake. But then learn
from it and don't make the same
one again. Everything I've
learned, I've learned by making
mistakes. |
Esther Dyson |
EDventure Holdings |
|
Fail small to succeed big. |
Vadim Kotelnikov |
Innovarsity |
