Richard G. Darman Quotes

Sometimes when I'm on the phone, someone will say, 'Yes, Mr. Yeoh.' And I'm thinking, 'I'm not Mr. Yeoh, man.'

Today I dialed a wrong number... The other person said, "Hello?" and I said, "Hello, could I speak to Joey?"... They said, "Uh... I don't think so... he's only 2 months old." I said, "I'll wait."

Hello?... No I'm sorry no Shaquita here. Well what number did you dial?.. No it's a nine not a seven... Well try it if it doest work call me back we'll figure this thing out.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.

Error is always talkative.

Error is ever talkative.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

An innocent bureaucratic snafu.

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: "If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody's slipped up somewhere."

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses. Or two dumpsters.

It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make

I always say that I'm really inspired by mistakes and things that kind of go wrong.

Everyone makes mistakes - mistakes are correctable.

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Survivors lived with their mistakes.