Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. Quotes

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

I always say if you're not failing, you're not trying.

If you don't fail, you haven't tried hard enough.

If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything.

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

I have always said that you have to fail. If you do not fail, it means you have never taken enough risks.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

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

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.