Quotes About Wisdom

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

It's not an accident that successful people read more books.

Mentorship is the key to extraordinary success.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

We either get success or lessons. If we learn our lessons successfully, we get both.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.

The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.