Astro Teller Quotes

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.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

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

A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.

As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. Success isn't born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell; it's developed through relentless trial and error.

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

I've taken a number of creative leaps, and some of them worked, and some of them didn't, but I don't regret any of them because you can't possibly get to the ones that work without the ones that don't.

I think the big thing is don't be afraid to fail.

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

Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

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

There is always time for failure.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

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.

Failure is always an option.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

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.

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

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