A Quote by John Backus

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

John Backus

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John Backus
American - Scientist
December 3, 1924 - March 17, 2007

You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.

John Backus

Risk is the willingness to fail.

Kathleen Turner

Your willingness to fail is what will let you succeed.

Vinod Khosla

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

Diane Lane

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

Corrie Ten Boom

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

Vinod Khosla

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

Vinod Khosla

If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to fail, fail, fail. You have to fail and fail miserably many times.

Erik Wemple

The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways

Mike Brown

An asset allocation plan is based on your personal circumstances, goals, time-horizon, and need and willingness to take risk.

Michael LeBoeuf

The money men make from their willingness to work the least desirable hours is not a sign of discrimination against women, but a sign of the willingness of mostly married men to lose sleep to support the family as their wife loses sleep to feed the child. A willingness to do the uncomfortable shifts is one reason married men earn more than twice what never-married men earn. Men's contribution, made at night, need not be lost in the dark.

Warren Farrell

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

Aisha Tyler

When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.

Howard Schultz

It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.

Daniel H. Pink

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Michael Korda

The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

Harry Golden

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