Harvey Mackay Quotes

What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also what might later on be a mistake.

Whenever we try something new, mistakes will happen. Seemingly good ideas will fail and need to be re-thought.

I think if you're going to be a little bit innovative or risk-taking, sometimes you're going to be wrong, and it's going to look bad. I understand that.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

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.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

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.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.

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.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

In all pioneer movements, they underwent a period of experimentation in which mistakes were made which, eventually, according to their proponents, might have led to valuable findings and encouraging results …

Error is the price we pay for progress.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

When you try new things, you will make mistakes. That's OK.

I have made some mistakes. No, a lot of mistakes. If you want to develop a new thing, a lot of mistakes will be inevitable. We should be allowed to make mistakes.

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

I love my mistakes. That's how you learn! You have to keep making mistakes. That's how you expand!

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.