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Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so. ↗

— Rau'Shee Warren

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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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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

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

— Joseph J. Ellis

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A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. ↗

— William Allen White

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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ↗

— Billy Wilder

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If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

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A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat. ↗

— Harold Wilson

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