learning from mistakes quotes

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.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

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

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

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

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

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.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.