Naveen Jain Quotes

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.

This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Failing passionately is a success in its own right.

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

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

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

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.

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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

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

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

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

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

People laughed at me for setting up a surf shop.

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.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.