Eric Butterworth Quotes

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'

It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

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

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

People who try to tackle failure attract failure. The more you indulge in analysis, it gets tougher. So just keep making mistakes and learn.

As an entrepreneur, you are constantly playing in uncharted territory, and sometimes things don't work out. That doesn't mean you failed; it just means you may be off course.

For me, failure is not a bad thing because it teaches you how to succeed.

You make mistakes to learn from them.

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.