Ken Xie Quotes

Everything that I do should be wrong, but I started really young, and I just learned how to learn. I would fail, and I would figure out why that didn't go right and do it again.

Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.

You always learn, especially in failure.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

Failure teaches you a lot more than success.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.

So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.

You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.

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

When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.

When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

You learn more from your failures than you do from your successes.

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

I learned so much from my mistakes.

It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

It's okay to fail if you learn from it.