Steve Blank Quotes

Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.

Hopefully, I can advise entrepreneurs to avoid mistakes. But you can never be sure if you're trying something new and unreasonable.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

Every project for me is a risk that I bet on. I believe my senses, and hopefully it will be successful. But sometimes you make it, and sometimes you fail.

In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.

Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

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

You want to hire great people and give them the opportunity to fail. You need to let them figure things out as they go along. If they fail repeatedly, then you probably have to find a different person, but if you don't let people have that opportunity to fail, they don't get to learn and grow and try things.

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.

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

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.

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

Whenever you start a new business, the sheer number of variables at hand makes failure a constant possibility.

As good and as smart as you may be, no one knows everything. I truly wish I was as smart as I thought I was when I started my first company.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.

I know there's pros and cons to Trump, and people talk crap that he's had a lot of failed businesses, but failing a lot sometimes means you've tried more. And a lot of those people have succeeded more times than they failed.