Steve Jobs Quotes

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.

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.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

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.

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

Always make new mistakes.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

You have to have a cultural ethic that allows for making mistakes. It cannot be that just because you make mistakes, you're out. You have to make mistakes in order to innovate.

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.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

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 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.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

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

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. He tries and fails maybe a 1000 times. If he succeeds once, then he's in.