Igor Sikorsky Quotes

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

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.

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

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.

Always make new mistakes.

Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

No failure means no risk, which means nothing new

When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability.