Naveen Jain Quotes

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.

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

For me, failure is not a bad thing because it teaches you how to succeed.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.

I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

When you put yourself out there, you're putting yourself in the position to make a mistake.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different.

You will learn more from your failures than your successes - so embrace those mistakes, as difficult as that sounds, and grow from them. When a project is successful, you're never really sure why, because so many elements come into play. However, when you fail, you always know why. That is how you learn and grow.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes - because you will anyway - and remember that small stuff stinks but that it's also essential.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

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.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.