Guy Fieri Quotes

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

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

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

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

I have made some mistakes. No, a lot of mistakes. If you want to develop a new thing, a lot of mistakes will be inevitable. We should be allowed to make mistakes.

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

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

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.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

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.

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

You can't make anything without making mistakes, do you know what I mean? Robert De Niro's in the 'Rocky and Bullwinkle' film. There's a lot of far greater people than me who have made mistakes in their careers... There's loads of people who have made stuff that isn't good and never get asked about it.

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

I love the idea of cooking, but I don't like using recipe books, so I'll put a mish-mash together, and it might be amazing by total accident, or it will be a catastrophe.

I've certainly had a number of failures along the way, depending on my own instincts and creativity, some fairly celebrated, at least during their time.

It's OK to make mistakes... Try different things.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

I think if you're going to be a little bit innovative or risk-taking, sometimes you're going to be wrong, and it's going to look bad. I understand that.

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

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

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