Quotes About Mistakes

I've made stupid investments. I've made stupid decisions as an employee. I've made foolish decisions as a manager. I've gotten fired. I've lost businesses. I went through all of those things.

Entrepreneurs can benefit a lot from the right help and advice, and you can avoid costly mistakes. You can get incredible leverage in hiring people who wouldn't even talk to you if you have the right help. An investor isn't about money - it's about the help and advice you can get.

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is not understanding the relationship they have with their investors. At times, they confuse VCs with their friends.

Looking inward and understanding where you made mistakes in the past helps you set up for change.

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

I've been in jail a couple times. I've been caught shoplifting.

I didn't know how to deal with real life issues the right way as a humble human being until I was humbled to the point of being put in a jail cell.

I know friends who took what I call the easy way and some of them are now dead, or in jail, because they were involved in bad things.

I know a lot of people who've gone to jail.

Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.

When Joe Rogan started his podcasts he'd have me, Joe Diaz, and all our friends help him for the first few. And I told him 'Dude, no one will listen to audio that's over an hour long. You've got to end it at 59:59 or less.' And I was way wrong.

I told jokes badly.

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The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

It is necessary to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. ADMIRAL HYMAN G. RICKOVER

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines — so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

In his preparations for the battle of Waterloo Napoleon contrived to produce a grand slam of mistakes. It is surprising that his great name as a captain has survived the lengthy checklist of errors he committed that day, or that Wellington should have gained such a great reputation for taking advantage of opportunities that were virtually handed him on a plate.

Somewhere between the sterile, absolute, and empty formulae of reductionist, totalitarian science and the earnest, hostile, excessively certain make-believe of religious fundamentalism, there is a beautiful place. There is room in this place for honesty. For tenderness. For fury. For wonder. For hope. For mistakes. For paradox. For grace.

You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat. But it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you musn't suffer from being wrong.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.