Quotes About Learning

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!

Make mistakes faster.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.

A genuinely humble attitude is one of the greatest skills in business. Because it compels us to LISTEN and LEARN.

Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.

There's a Harvard Business School thing that says, 'Every 10 years you should replant yourself,' and the only way to keep young is to learn new things and keep curious.

If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe.

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.

Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

When I look out from my own business career, I tried to learn from some of the best people, regardless of the industry.