Eric Ries Quotes

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Failing passionately is a success in its own right.

If you show me someone who's afraid of failure, I'll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative pioneer of a certain industry.

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.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor. When you're starting out, especially as an entrepreneur, you really don't know what you're doing. You go out there and you try so many things. The key in the process, to me, is that you keep trying and you never give up.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

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

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.