past experiences quotes

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

I was a thug.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

You can never plan the future by the past.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.