Aaron Levie Quotes

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

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.

Always make new mistakes.

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

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

Failure's inevitable. It happens all the time in a complex economy. And how did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us, computers and cell phones and so on? Well, the process was trial and error. There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered, and the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

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.

You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.

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.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

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.

The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works. You have to iterate quickly, and you should be prepared to fail. Because things often don't go as planned.

Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something.

When you're successful at something, you think that you need to continue to do what you're doing to get the same result. But I think in order to get better, sometimes you need some failures.

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

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

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.

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.

Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.