Bob Parsons Quotes

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

Failing is part of my process. A new bit never works the first time. I figure I have to bomb 7 times to make it good. So I tweak it.

It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

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

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.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.

Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. He tries and fails maybe a 1000 times. If he succeeds once, then he's in.

The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

When you're first starting a show, any show, you learn what works and what doesn't work, and it's a kind of trial and error thing.