Lincoln Steffens Quotes

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

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

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.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

The biggest lessons I learned were probably the times where I had the biggest setbacks and the biggest challenges - when I had the biggest jumps forward and lessons learned.

Failing passionately is a success in its own right.

The only way you'll find out something is to fail because you only need one success to be successful.

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.

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

The person who fails the most wins.

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

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.