Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

To achieve longevity you will have cycles. No one gets there in one straight shot.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

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.

Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.

GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving.

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.

The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

All great success is preceded by failure.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

All great innovations are built on rejections.

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

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