Ken Blanchard Quotes

As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you've got, and fix it as you go.

It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.

I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

I learned over time that you do not go for the perfect solution….You do what is doable and then you want to try and do a little bit more.

In software design, it's all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience.

As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. Success isn't born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell; it's developed through relentless trial and error.

If you feel like it's going to work, do it. If it doesn't, get out as quick as you can.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say 'OK we'll have another go' instead of it being the only chance you get.

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.

We have the right to go and try new things and, if those things don't work, go back to what we were doing at first.

Sometimes you try different things when you play the best ones many times and you lost a few times, so you have to change sometimes.

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It's the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points.