Steve McConnell Quotes

I set out to understand how we got it so wrong and what can we learn from the fact that we did.

I became a manager very young. My first sous chef job I was, maybe, 25. It was a bit too early for me. But it's on-the-job training. You really just get stuck in there and it's trial and error. You learn by your mistakes, and hopefully you don't keep making them. And if you do, you just keep trying to fix it.

A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

You've got to learn from your mistakes. And not do them again.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes as learning opportunities that yield rapid improvements you should be excited by them. But if you treat them as bad things, you will make yourself and others miserable, and you won't grow.

I learned that everyone makes mistakes and has weaknesses and that one of the most important things that differentiates people is their approach to handling them. I learned that there is an incredible beauty to mistakes, because embedded in each mistake is a puzzle, and a gem that I could get if I solved it, i.e. a principle that I could use to reduce my mistakes in the future.

I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.

The expression I use: Pain + Reality = Progress. Whenever I would have a painful mistake, I started to view that as puzzles that would give me gems if I could solve the puzzle. So, it made me thoughtful - what should I do differently next time? That was the puzzle. And the gem was some principle for handling the same thing when it came along again, and then I would write it down. And by writing it down and referring to it, and also being able to show it to other people so that we could agree that that was a good way of handling that thing - that was very, very powerful.

I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

You learn more when things go wrong.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address.

Unfortunates learn from their own mistakes, and the lucky ones learn from other's mistakes.

At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes.

I am big on - even with our whole team - it's always about, well, what were the lessons learned? Something didn't work out? What are the lessons learned? What are the lessons learned?

I bet you that we all learn from our mistakes. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, too.

Perhaps I've committed some technical and tactical mistakes and I'll look to correct them.

I always try to improve in every aspect and learn from my errors.