Steve McConnell Quotes

We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

I don't think about taking risks anymore because there aren't any risks to take.

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

One of the biggest mistakes that most people make is clinging to the excuse that the time isn't quite right to take action. Well, let me tell you something: In my experience, conditions are never right at the right time. The timing is always wrong. So if you're waiting for everything to be perfect before taking action, you have a foolproof excuse for never taking action.

If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.

After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the room. You stumbled and fell on your face and got up and tried again. At what age are you suddenly expected to know everything and never make any more mistakes? If you can love and respect yourself in failure, worlds of adventure and new experiences will open up before you, and your fears will vanish.

You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure...You cannot achieve success if you FEAR failure.