Edward Whitacre Jr. Quotes

From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

In business, experience is the big teacher.

I'm trying to be a sponge. People say, 'Well, that's what your rookie year is.' I still feel that way in my second year.

My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

I built a career out of knowing what I don't know.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new.

I like to learn about things. I could learn about business, which I knew nothing about. Since the age of 7, I wanted to be a doctor and nothing else.

I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

When you come into this game and this industry, it's kind of like really being born again, because you don't know too much about it.

I know I've got a lot more to learn, so I'm just taking it game by game.

By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

I've always been about learning. No matter how long I've been in the business or where I've been in a company, I've always wanted to continue to learn.

Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

I have gained experience over the years, but learning will keep happening in every game.