Chip Conley Quotes

Career-wise, there are so many things where you don't get what you think you want. I've had to make space for, 'Do I let that debilitate me and make me feel bad about myself? And make me feel like I need to change myself in some way?' Because I think changing myself is very different from growing and learning.

Whenever I have experienced failure in my career, those experiences have made me more mature as a player.

I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.

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

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.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.

I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.

You can't expect perfection. It is important to sort of acknowledge some of our imperfections. I write them down. There's something about acknowledging mistakes and being able to put them down on paper; they become facts of your life that you must live with. And then, hopefully, you can navigate the road a little bit better.

I do love giving advice, but I try not to forget how flawed I am as well. And how many mistakes I've made.

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

I haven't been near perfect by any means. In fact, I've got a list of things I want to do better.

If you can't admit your faults how can you ever grow?

I've learned a lot from counseling and talking about the mistakes that I've made; I've understood why I made them.

I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them.

I am constantly evolving, constantly trying to be the best I can be, and learning from things that didn't go too well is definitely a way of doing that.

If I make a mistake I try to use it as a lesson and try to improve on it.

I feel like interviews are the only time I actually analyze my own work.