#stake

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

— Billy Wilder

#else #instead #instinct #might #mistakes

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

#both #choosing #given #john #john mccain

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes. ↗

— John Wooden

#anything #doer #doing #i #makes

Never mistake activity for achievement. ↗

— John Wooden

#activity #mistake #never

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments. ↗

— Loretta Young

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I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive. ↗

— Neil Young

#before #i #labeled #labeling #like

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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