Sam Walton Quotes

Do it, fix it, try it.

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

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

Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

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

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

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

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

We learn by taking action and seeing whether it works or not.

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

Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".

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

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

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.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.