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Failing Quote by Eric Ries

“This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.” quote by Eric Ries — Download Open image

“This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.”

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Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.

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“...a long-term reputation is only at risk when companies engage in vocal launch activities such as PR and building hype. When a product fails to live up to those pronouncements, real long-term damage can happen to a corporate brand. But startups have the advantage of being obscure, having a pathetically small number of customers and not having much exposure. Rather…

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Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange…

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To…

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Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

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I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.

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You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.…

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We can't afford any president to fail.

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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves…

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Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

Terry Pratchett

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