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Failure Quotes

"Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it's going to work, it's not an experiment."

"To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment."

"We take risks all the time, we talk about failure. We need big failures in order to move the needle. If we don't, we're not swinging enough. You really should be swinging hard, and you will fail, but that's okay."

"If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon."

"Companies are rarely criticized for the things that they failed to try. But they are, many times, criticized for things they tried and failed at."

"As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. If the size of your failures isn’t growing, you’re not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle. Amazon will be experimenting at the righ"

"When you think about the things that you will regret when you’re 80, they’re almost always the things that you did not do. They’re acts of omission. Very rarely are you going to regret something that you did that failed and didn’t work or whatever."

"I often speak to people who wonder why they continue to fail. In many situations, they are concentrating their efforts in the wrong places period."

"It is no fun to fail, but you must pick yourself you and get back in the race. The only way you can grow is to challenge yourself beyond your present circumstances."

"You can't win unless you learn how to lose."

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."

"If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

"Failure is not the end, but a stepping stone to greater success."

― Phil Jackson

"Success is not the absence of failure, but the willingness to persevere in spite of it."

― Phil Jackson