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Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#company #cost #employee #experience #fire

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. ↗

— Earl Weaver

#anything #became #being #discovered #else

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#concerned #every #every man #his #i

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#bigger #bury #corrected #fatal #get

I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

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I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#actions #am #ashamed #cared #deeply

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#always #america #democratic #despot #embrace

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. ↗

— Jack Welch

#i #learned #mistakes #often #success

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

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