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Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.

Nolan Bushnell

It's much easier to fail when you're in the pilot, early stage, when it's less expensive and you're exploring than when you're way out the door and you've spent all this money. Industry is smart: structured to have skunkworks and pilot phases. Megan Smith

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress. Nolan Bushnell

Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company. Sanjay Kumar

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress. Nolan Bushnell

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. Denis Waitley

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky. James Surowiecki

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress. Nolan Bushnell

I think having worked in a department store setting, if my life had not taken a drastically different turn when I became an actor, there's a very high probability I would have continued to work at the department store.

Cory Monteith

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.

Lewis Thomas

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.

Nolan Bushnell

The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic contests between the regions and the sects will reappear, the Taliban will re-emerge, and a very complicated and maybe chaotic situation will develop.

Henry Kissinger

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped. I've developed tests that I'm hoping can help entrepreneurs manage that shaping process, so that the business plan that comes out the other end has a very high probability of success. Clayton Christensen

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If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

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You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

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Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

Jaron Lanier

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You don't get the good without the bad, but you really do have to see it all in order to make progress.

Margot Lee Shetterly

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. Barack Obama

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs. Jennifer Granholm

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. Shirley Chisholm

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A lot of people don't just go ahead and try things.

Pierre Omidyar

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I like to be bold and different and to go and try things.

Mirai Nagasu

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You're not living if you don't go out and try things for yourself.

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You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.

David Johansen

I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things. Kat Graham

I need to feel like I have that freedom to make mistakes and to just try things. Megan Rapinoe

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Life is a school of probability.

Walter Bagehot

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I like the probability of the impossible.

Nicolas Roeg

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The probability of failure doesn't matter to me.

Vinod Khosla

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But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

Joseph Butler

Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability. Claude Shannon

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. William Osler

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. Nate Silver

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I like risky stuff.

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In my misspent youth, I was risky.

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You know what? Starting a car company is risky.

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I think funding risky projects is very important.

Roderick MacKinnon

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business. Cate Blanchett

Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move. Freddie Wong

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I like movies about failing.

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I'm pretty lowbrow. It's a failing.

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

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Failing to see the point is not a virtue.

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I was kind of scared of failing at acting. James Franco

I don't believe in failing. I have dignity. Alejandro Jodorowsky

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin

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Progress is a choice.

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I'm a work in progress.

Barbra Streisand

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Movement isn't progress.

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Failure is impossible.

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Failure is your invention.

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Don't come home a failure.

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Nothing fails like failure.

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I'm willing to make fun of myself.

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Be willing to take on career risks.

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A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

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Company makes my day.

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I'm good at my own company.

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I'm building a large company.

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I'm high energy.

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Envy aims very high.

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I swam in high school.

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I try to meditate.

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I try to be honest.

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Tech never comes back the same.

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We never do the same set twice.

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Boys and girls are not the same.

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The world remains ever the same.

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Funny is when you're serious.

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If you're lying, you're lying.

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When you're leading, don't talk.

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I'm real easy-going.

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I'm gonna keep going.

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My time is now.

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