Jerry Greenfield Quotes

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

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

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

If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.

Always make new mistakes.

The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

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

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

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.

You know you're gonna have failures, there's no way to avoid it. Especially if you're an entrepreneur, if you're doing something new, of course there are gonna be mistakes. How can you not make mistakes? You don't know what you're going; it's unchartered territory.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

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.

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

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.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.