Esther Dyson Quotes

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

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.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

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.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

I have made some mistakes. No, a lot of mistakes. If you want to develop a new thing, a lot of mistakes will be inevitable. We should be allowed to make mistakes.

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

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.

Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

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

You're not always going to hit the bull's-eye. I'm going to make movies that work and I'm going to make movies that don't work, and that's just a part of being creative. Because really, I think if you're taking risks and you're pushing yourself and you're doing things that scare you, you are going to fall on your face, and it's not always going to work.

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.