#peri

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

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. ↗

— Rebecca West

#experience #gulf #side #than #thither

You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. ↗

— Morris West

#caught #cave #creature #experiences #fact

'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'! ↗

— Randy West

#experience #first #first appearance #forget #how

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived. ↗

— Rebecca West

#life #lived #memory #mere #merely

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#although #am #away #been #depressed

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences. ↗

— Kim Weston

#experiences #life #life experiences #lot #my life

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#creative #mankind #periods #prolific #seldom

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through. ↗

— Margaret Whiting

#experience #go #had #i #needed

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior. ↗