Satya Nadella Quotes

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'

I don't live my life based on fear of failure. I live my life with an understanding of failure and I'm embracing it, because every time I fail, I learn something new.

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

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

There's no problem being wrong; it's a learning opportunity.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the room. You stumbled and fell on your face and got up and tried again. At what age are you suddenly expected to know everything and never make any more mistakes? If you can love and respect yourself in failure, worlds of adventure and new experiences will open up before you, and your fears will vanish.

Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.

If I fail more than you do, I win.

Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving.

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.