Bruce Kovner Quotes

Some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We'll find the mistakes. We'll fix them.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

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

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

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.

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

There's a Theodore Roosevelt speech about the importance of being in the arena, whether you fail or you succeed, or you make a complete idiot of yourself, as long as you're doing the best with what you have, using whatever knowledge you have to bring to the table at that moment. And you continue to keep learning. I think my mistakes have made me much stronger. It's nice to know that things don't ultimately break you; that you need to go there to know.

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.

We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.

There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.

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

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

Not being afraid to be wrong - I had to learn how to do that.

You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.