Seth Godin Quotes

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

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.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

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

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

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.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

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 mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

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.

With innovation, there is always risk.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Rodgers & Hart had a few flops before they clicked. You know, it happens. I don't know anyone who always gets away with everything.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'