James E. Burke Quotes

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

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

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

I've taken a number of creative leaps, and some of them worked, and some of them didn't, but I don't regret any of them because you can't possibly get to the ones that work without the ones that don't.

I say to people all the time, it is OK to fail. Some of the greatest successes in the history of America started out as failures.

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.

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.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

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

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

I guess you can say I always liked to take chances. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't.

I think the big thing is don't be afraid to fail.

If you're afraid of failure or getting it wrong, you'll never truly innovate or disrupt the market.

Bottom line is don't ever be afraid to fail.

The only way you'll find out something is to fail because you only need one success to be successful.

You can't afford to be afraid of failure in this business.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Always make new mistakes.