Creative Problem Solving Quotes

People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

There are no problems, only solutions.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

As an entrepreneur, you are constantly playing in uncharted territory, and sometimes things don't work out. That doesn't mean you failed; it just means you may be off course.

You have to have a cultural ethic that allows for making mistakes. It cannot be that just because you make mistakes, you're out. You have to make mistakes in order to innovate.

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.

I've had many failures in terms of technological... business... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Making 'American Made' really was an adventure.

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

Never let a good crisis go to waste

The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works. You have to iterate quickly, and you should be prepared to fail. Because things often don't go as planned.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.