James Truslow Adams Quotes

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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.

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.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

I have always said that you have to fail. If you do not fail, it means you have never taken enough risks.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

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

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

Always make new mistakes.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

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

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.