Business Quote by Sebastian Thrun

Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed…

— Michael Malone

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

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

— Abhijit V. Banerjee

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

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

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

— Gagan Biyani

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

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work…

— Eric Ries

There's no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there's such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources.…

— Elon Musk

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

Most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die.

— Henry Chesbrough

What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.

— Christopher Galvin