Joe Lonsdale Quotes

How you succeed is how you deal with failure. Whatever way you dress it up, something hasn't worked.

What if the Secret to Success is Failure?.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

You learn an enormous lot through failure.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

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

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes - because you will anyway - and remember that small stuff stinks but that it's also essential.

I have learned how to better handle things as they come.

Fail again, fail better.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

The biggest lessons I learned were probably the times where I had the biggest setbacks and the biggest challenges - when I had the biggest jumps forward and lessons learned.

Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.

Tasting failure, even when you truly believe in a project, is a critical part of the growth process.