Eric Hoffer Quotes

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

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

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

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.

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

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

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.

Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.