Eric Ries Quotes

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.

You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Before you become successful, you have to fall down on your face.

You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.

Everything I've achieved has come from perseverance. I've never met another entrepreneur who had a painless path to success - everyone who tries to bring new ideas to the world is tested.

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

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.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.

I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.

I had to either get better or leave the field. I couldn't go back to my village as a failure. The only thing that occurred to me was that I would work hard and get better next year. I feel that my love for the craft has got me this far, and this love is still there.

It was tough to fail year after year. I never even got to the final stage until I got my card on the Web.com Tour. But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.

Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.

I think my failures in Houston is what made me who I am. I think it's given me that drive, that drive to keep working, because you never know what can happen type deal.

Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it's not going to work.

Giving up is the first way to fail. It does not exist for me.

Fame will go away; people will not have interest in your work anymore. That has to happen. To overcome, all you can do is reinvent and work hard.

Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.

You definitely get the answer 'no' more times in this business than you do 'yes.' It's what you do with those 'nos' that makes your success either great or not.