Quotes About Experience

Find mentors who have already successfully made the crossing before.

My first day as an entrepreneur was not off to a very good start.

THE CONE OF LEARNING Edgar Dale gets credit for helping us to understand that we learn best through action—doing the real thing or a simulation. Sometimes it's called experiential learning. Dale and his Cone of Learning tell us that reading and lecture are the least effective ways to learn. And yet we all know how most schools teach: reading and lecture.

One lesson from rich dad that has become crystal clear over the past 20 years is the importance of choosing teachers who have actually DONE what you want to do.

This costs them investment experience.

Inside every disappointment lies a priceless gem of wisdom.

Does teaching mean talking or a lecture?" rich dad asked. "Well, yes," I replied. "That's how they teach you in school," he said, smiling. "But that is not how life teaches you, and I would say that life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up. There's something I want you to learn.'" 20 YEARS AGO TODAY...

life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up. There's something I want you to learn.

there is some truth to the old statement

Find someone who has done what you want to do. Take them to lunch and ask them for tips and tricks of the trade.

Knowing what I know about running a company, I wouldn't wish that task on anyone.

And I've never met someone rich who has never lost money.

Although the horse ride was a short one, the memories that came back spanned a lifetime.

Rich dad knew that failure would only make him stronger and smarter.

would say that life is the best teacher of all.

Learning by making mistakes through trial and error is more and more important. Book learning is proving to be less valuable in the real world.

he was about 20 years older than I was.

I would say that I just gave you a taste of life.

I decided to design a course that mirrored real life.

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

Anne: But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice. Marilla: I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones.