Failure Quotes by Ferdinand Porsche

The perfect racing car crosses the finish line first and subsequently falls into its component parts.

— Ferdinand Porsche

Good design should be honest.

— Ferdinand Porsche

Life itself is a race, marked by a start, and a finish. It is what we learn during the race, and how we apply…

— Ferdinand Porsche

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

— Ferdinand Porsche

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

— Ferdinand Porsche

I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.

— Ferdinand Porsche

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

— Ferdinand Porsche

Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult

— Ferdinand Porsche

In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself.

— Ferdinand Porsche

Porsche....there is no substitute

— Ferdinand Porsche

Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and…

— Ferdinand Porsche