Steve Case Quotes

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

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

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.

It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

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

You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.

I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come and try it. It doesn't matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

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

Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

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.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

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.