Ryan Holmes Quotes

Once an organization has a strong sense of mission, leaders can focus on trying new things.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

The whole concept behind 'Forty Chances' is really a mindset: If everybody thought they had to put themselves out of business in 40 years, you had 40 chances to succeed in what your primary goals are, you would probably be more urgent and you would be forced to change quicker.

As an entrepreneur you keep trying things, and I try everything. I try business ideas, on our website we test everything, iterate, iterate, iterate.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really, really going well, that's the time to change.

If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.

If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.

I certainly like to swing the pendulum and try new things and to do things that are different from the last thing that I did.

I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

In a business, you've got to move on.

It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

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.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

In any business, you have to evolve.

Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.