Astro Teller Quotes

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

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

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

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

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.

I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

You can only go forward by making mistakes.

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

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

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.

If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.

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.