Larry Ellison Quotes

When you have made an error of historic proportions, the sooner you change policy, the smaller the price you will pay.

I think if you make a mistake, it had better be early in the race so you can bounce back from it.

All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.

To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

No one's perfect. And we've all made our mistakes and you just have to live with them and try to not make them again.

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

Delta: We never make the same mistake three times.

You will get something wrong today, and tomorrow, and every day of your life. So will I, and everybody you know. You don’t have a choice about being wrong sometimes: mistakes will be your life-long companion. But you do have a choice about whether to approach your error in terror so you suppress, ignore and repeat it — or to make it your honest, open ally in trying to get to the truth.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

You correct an error by bringing truth to it.

There are no mistakes only opportunities.

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.