Richard DeVos Quotes

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

It's not a weakness to admit that you're wrong.

To grow you must understand and admit your mistakes, it is an approach that works for me, it is not necessarily the same for everyone.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am.

I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

Looking inward and understanding where you made mistakes in the past helps you set up for change.

I've learned not to say, 'No, I'd never do that.'

The coach needs to understand, when he's not teaching something the right way or he sees something wrong, he's got to be able to admit to his mistakes.

I'm not going to sit here and say I know everything about everything. I definitely have work to do. The thing is, I'm willing to admit that.

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.