Quotes About Experience

Experience speaks differently than Knowledge

No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.

Age does not count. It's what you know about football that matters.

The moment you start building or doing stuff beyond your knowledge, soon you will end up by demanding time.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone.

Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.