Sara Blakely Quotes

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.

I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

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

It's OK to make mistakes... Try different things.

You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from trying.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

I always wanted to be that guy who pushed the envelope in all kind of ways and tried something new. When I keep that rule going, it always takes me to a new place. There are times when I fail miserably, but I always find myself knowing one more thing better, doing one more thing that I never did before.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

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.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

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

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

One thing about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is that you're going to make mistakes, and you're going to fall flat on your face sometimes.

When you try new things, you will make mistakes. That's OK.

I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

I have always said that you have to fail. If you do not fail, it means you have never taken enough risks.

I think it's also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal. People are very obsessed with building useful things and I think often that also stops people from getting started.