Markus Zusak Quotes

Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

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

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

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.

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.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

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.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

I have always said that you have to fail. If you do not fail, it means you have never taken enough risks.

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

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.

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

Failure is success training.

Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

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.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.