Horace Walpole Quotes

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls 'black swans' -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.

... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

I'm sure that in the fullness of time we'll learn that one or more of these seemingly promising technologies were dead ends. And that's the nature of innovation, and that's why we should spread our bets; we should not put our eggs in any one basket. Some of these will be grand successes, some of them will be average, and some of them will be abject failures.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work.

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

You have to take the chance to bomb and disappoint audiences.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.