Bill Ackman Quotes

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

You learn more when things go wrong.

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.

I'm OK with making mistakes as long as I correct them and don't do it again.

Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

It's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

Life is like school. You aren't going to be born knowing what to do in every situation. You learn little by little.

You correct the mistakes, and you move on.

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.

Win or lose, I always learn something.