Tim Harford Quotes

You have to expect failure; not everything is going to work.

We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

I've never thought I wanted to quit in my research. I would always fail in experiments, which I did at least three times a day.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

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

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Failures happen in any system.

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

I've had failures myself before Uber.

Whether we vote to leave or remain, there are risks to our future; there are challenges in the global economy.

Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.