Tony Benn Quotes

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

Once an organization has a strong sense of mission, leaders can focus on trying new things.

In all pioneer movements, they underwent a period of experimentation in which mistakes were made which, eventually, according to their proponents, might have led to valuable findings and encouraging results …

I love my mistakes. That's how you learn! You have to keep making mistakes. That's how you expand!

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

We have made a huge amount of progress over the last 50 years by enabling trade, by enabling kind of collaboration and learning. And actually, in fact, when you look at your average 30-year-old today, they're much better off than a 30-year-old 20 years ago, 30 years ago, because of progress in technology and health care and all the rest of this.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

It's so important to adapt, think outside the box, and stay ahead if you want to grow.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

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

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

I believe that companies are, above all, agents of transformation.

All progress is experimental.

There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.