Tim Harford Quotes

We learn from failure, not from success!

I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Every business makes big mistakes along the way.

Failure is part of success, and nobody should ever view failure as a bad thing as long as you learn from it.

It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.

Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure.

Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.

You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.

Failure to subject the project, especially in its latter frenzied stages, to a cold and objective appraisal by the best operating talent available, particularly by those not involved in the operation Failure to advise the president, at an appropriate time, that success had become dubious and to recommend that the operation be therefore canceled Failure to recognize that the project had become overt and that the military effort had become too large to be handled by the agency alone

As President I'll make mistakes because I'm going to do things ... and people who do things err.

The important thing about Edison is that he realized that failure was an opportunity to learn…. Unless you fail, you can’t learn.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

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

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

It is important to realize that the process of 'fostering' a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.

Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player.

People who try to tackle failure attract failure. The more you indulge in analysis, it gets tougher. So just keep making mistakes and learn.