Simone Giertz Quotes

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

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.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

I have made some mistakes. No, a lot of mistakes. If you want to develop a new thing, a lot of mistakes will be inevitable. We should be allowed to make mistakes.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

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

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

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

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

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

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

In medicine, or in science, you go down a path and it turns out to be a dead end, you really made a contribution, because we know we don’t have to go down that path again. In the press, they call it failure. And so people are unwilling to innovate, unwilling to take risks in government …

I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.

You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

When you're successful at something, you think that you need to continue to do what you're doing to get the same result. But I think in order to get better, sometimes you need some failures.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.