Tony Fadell Quotes
If you look at most successful startups, they're run by people in their mid to late forties, who've gone through the trenches multiple times and had multiple failures, so they understand.
Fadell, Tony. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making. Harper Business, 2022.
Politicians, bureaucrats, and appointees all will make mistakes unless they do nothing. Learning from those mistakes is an opportunity to avoid the same or similar errors in the future as well as to become wiser in general. However, many politicians are reluctant to admit that they made an error. In a polarized political atmosphere, political opponents will castigate politicians who admit to a , administrative, policy or judgment error. None the less, the greatest of the politicians learned from past errors and bcame great, in part as a result of their learning from mistakes.
"Winters" is used in both a literal and metaphorical sense. The wise man must be old enough to have garnered the wisdom and he must have lived through some difficult times.
Most of the great political leaders also have many failures, especially in the policy realm. For example, while most Americans remember that FDR’s policies led to our emergence from the Great Depression, many of his programs, did not work, others were declared unconstitutional and necer really tried, and still others were not significant in what they accomplished.
Anthony Michael Fadell is an American engineer, innovator, designer, entrepreneur, founder, coach, and active investor. He is the inventor of the iPod, co-inventor of the iPhone, and founder and former CEO of Nest Labs.
