Brad Feld Quotes

I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

When you have your own business, you don't mind failing if it makes you better in the long run.

Welcome it as part of a process... you just can't avoid it... if you go to bat enough times, you are going to strike out; and you will do it cataclysmically; and you know success and failure are just millimeters apart.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.

An entrepreneur's life is always a continuous journey.

Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.

'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!

Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.