Michael Dell Quotes

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.

You only learn if you're given a crack at things.

You can't be afraid to fail because that's when you learn.

You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.

If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work.

Every day you make mistakes. And the key to making mistakes is first you have to make them, which means you're in the game. So don't be afraid of getting in the game.

Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.

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

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

What's worth doing even if you fail?

I could have easily not run for president, and people would have come up and said, "Oh, man, you would have been a great president." Or even a lousy president. But I never would have known had I not chosen to run. Part of life is seizing the moment.

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.

I've learned so much from my failures that I'm thinking of having some more.

Most of the reason we don’t do things is because we’re afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.

You learn so much from making mistakes, not even necessarily mistakes that I've made, a lot of the time the films just don't work out because it's a really difficult process. And sometimes there's a certain person underlining process. But I've had an opportunity to work on all different types of films and I have had a lot of opportunities to stretch myself in different ways and now is the time where I get to try and figure out out the roles that I can really play well and play them well.