Richard Jefferies Quotes

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

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

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

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.

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.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

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.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.

It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

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

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

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.

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

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

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

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.

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

If success were easy, then it would not necessarily be true success. Some of history's most successful people learned to cope with failure as a natural offshoot of the experimental and creative process and often learned more from their failures than their successes. By taking the attitude that failure is merely a detour on the way to our destination, hope can blossom into success.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.