Lee Iacocca Quotes

People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.

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

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.

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

Entrepreneurs … benefit greatly from being willing to fail, willing to experiment. Good entrepreneurs tend to be stubborn on the vision but flexible on the details. They’re persistent on what they’re trying to accomplish, but they are willing to rewrite the details as needed as they learn and as things fail.

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.

Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

You need to be experimental. You try things, and it is OK if they don't always work necessarily.

You have to be willing to fail, because you're not going to make every shot.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'