Lisa Lopes Quotes

In business, experience is the big teacher.

I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.

I think advice is cheap. You can only really learn by doing and making mistakes.

I don't think there's any substitute for experience.

Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

I've worked with more than 50 directors, and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving. You just leave the bad part out.

I always use the basic quality of people to achieve what I want to achieve. That's a different way of thinking. I always love that they do things. And when it goes wrong, well, try to correct it in one way or another.

Everything I've done I've always kind of jumped in headfirst, and it's been a learning curve. Even MuchMusic, I had never done live television before, and all of a sudden you show up, and they're like, 'You ready kid? Let's go.'

I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made.

I think entrepreneurs really appreciate directness and honesty, coupled with empathy.

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

I'm a guy that learns from making mistakes. Sometimes that's not the best way to learn, but that's how I learn.

Through the learning experiences, I've been trying to eliminate mistakes. I don't want the same mistake to happen twice.

Taking chances is my job; some will connect and some won't, and certain films find their audiences in different ways. I think 'Spotlight' probably is a better movie because of 'The Cobbler.' You learn with every movie you make: you learn from your mistakes, and you learn from your achievements, and I really do have that approach to filmmaking.

Trust yourself in tight situations, but you need to have a plan. You might fail once, twice, but you will get better at it.

In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.

You make mistakes that you want to learn from, that you don't want to happen again, and that's what I try to do.

I am grateful for the continued opportunity to take risks and learn from my mistakes as we at AMD strive to use technology to help solve some of the world's toughest challenges.