Jonah Peretti Quotes

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

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

I'm open to trying multiple different types of styles.

You need to be experimental. You try things, and it is OK if they don't always work necessarily.

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things.

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.

Above all, try something

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

Consider everything an experiment.

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.