I made lots of mistakes – the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

No driver is perfect.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven’t been taught how to take control of their financial future.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Remember that credit is money.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I’m an inventor.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.