Fabrice Grinda Quotes

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

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

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. Success isn't born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell; it's developed through relentless trial and error.

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.

People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

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.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

As an entrepreneur you keep trying things, and I try everything. I try business ideas, on our website we test everything, iterate, iterate, iterate.

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.