Steven Tyler Quotes

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

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.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.

If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Taking risk is good, and America is a country based on boldness and looking to the future.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.

We go out, we explore, we take risk. And our successes have to pay for all that.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

If you show me someone who's afraid of failure, I'll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative pioneer of a certain industry.

I think if you have too much fear, you're never going to break ground or develop.

You have to motivate people to take almost certain failure to get a small amount of success, which has driven our economy forward.

If you're afraid of failure or getting it wrong, you'll never truly innovate or disrupt the market.