Seth Godin Quotes

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

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

You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

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

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

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

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.

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

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

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Scott Adams is not only a world-famous cartoonist, he's also a world-class failure. And he's the first to admit it. In his new book, 'How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big,' the Dilbert creator explains how failure can lead to success if you develop the right skills to make the most of your mistakes.

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

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

In medicine, or in science, you go down a path and it turns out to be a dead end, you really made a contribution, because we know we don’t have to go down that path again. In the press, they call it failure. And so people are unwilling to innovate, unwilling to take risks in government …

I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.

You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works. You have to iterate quickly, and you should be prepared to fail. Because things often don't go as planned.