Jay Samit Quotes

Failure's inevitable. It happens all the time in a complex economy. And how did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us, computers and cell phones and so on? Well, the process was trial and error. There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered, and the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

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

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

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.

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.

Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

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.

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

In medicine, or in science, you go down a path and it turns out to be a dead end, you really made a contribution, because we know we don’t have to go down that path again. In the press, they call it failure. And so people are unwilling to innovate, unwilling to take risks in government …

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.

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.

The only way you'll find out something is to fail because you only need one success to be successful.

When you're successful at something, you think that you need to continue to do what you're doing to get the same result. But I think in order to get better, sometimes you need some failures.

Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

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