Eric Ries Quotes

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.

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.

It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.

Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

Failure is part and parcel of the process of experimenting with roles and films.

You need to fail quickly and learn from those failures to continue to build along the way.

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an insanely rapid pace. You want to be screwing around with nearly everything. Relentless experimentation was probably important in the 1970s-now it’s do or die.

If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.

Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

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

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

There is no knowledge without risk taking.

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

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