Tom Peters Quotes

Do it. Try it. Fix it.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

All progress is experimental.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

The cars are always changing. The competition's cars are always getting better. Sometimes when you try to make them better, you make them worse.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

There is a better way to do it - Find it!

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

Without deviation progress is not possible.