Admire Quote by Michael Malone

Investors do not like losing money. They do not like companies that fail. They do not like entrepreneurs that fail. There is not a…

— Julie Wainwright

“For each successful entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley or elsewhere, many have had to fail.”

— Abhijit V. Banerjee

In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.'…

— Sebastian Thrun

I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.

— Vinod Khosla

Nobody talks about failure in Silicon Valley, yet 90% of startups fail.

— Gagan Biyani

There is really an issue in Silicon Valley with companies getting a bit ahead of themselves in terms of their own self-perception of their…

— Patrick Collison

...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

— Reid Hoffman

People are still very focused on the startup story: Risk-taking founders, with a bold idea, some capital and a network supportive environment, go out…

— Reid Hoffman

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times…

— Sergey Brin

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate,…

— Elon Musk

I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate…

— Jeffrey Skoll