Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

They're expecting us to make mistakes, and they've set up a process that allows us to correct for that and do it again and iterate. So I think that's a real key to the films that we've made.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

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

I've done well over time but made lots of mistakes, too. Learn from your mistakes.

Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.

Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

Michael Marcus taught me one other thing that is absolutely critical: You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it. Michael taught me about making your best judgment, being wrong, making your next best judgment, being wrong, making your third best judgment, and then doubling your money.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice.

To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

Delta: We never make the same mistake three times.

Missing the mark is one of the ways in which we learn to hit the target.

Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.

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.

Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson.

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