Abhijit Banerjee Quotes

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

I think if you're going to be a little bit innovative or risk-taking, sometimes you're going to be wrong, and it's going to look bad. I understand 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.

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.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also what might later on be a mistake.

The more mistakes you make, the more you learn.

When you're successful at something, you think that you need to continue to do what you're doing to get the same result. But I think in order to get better, sometimes you need some failures.

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

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

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

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.

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.