Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

You can't be afraid of the problem. Don't be afraid of failure; don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make sure you learn from each step; iterate, and stay as efficient as possible without being paralyzed by a difficult situation.

Failure is always an option.

It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

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.

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

Part of being the successful Pixar is that we will take risks on teams and ideas, and some of them won't work out. We only lose from this if we don't respond to the failures. If we respond, and we think it through and figure out how to move ahead, then we're learning from it. That's what Pixar is.

Big failures hold better lessons than any success - as long as you are in tune with yourself and are open to learning from them. I can trace every one of my accomplishments to earlier failures that I learned from.

In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.

You can't be afraid to fail because that's when you learn.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

To lose is not always failure.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

Failures teach you more, there's always something fundamental about them.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

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