Les Wexner Quotes

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

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

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

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

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

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.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

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

Everything doesn't have to be perfect, I've realised. You can learn as you go.

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

You make mistakes to learn from them.

People make mistakes, and either you fall from your mistakes, or you learn from them.

There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.

People learn from their mistakes and move forward.

The best people make mistakes.

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.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

You cannot be successful without failure.

Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times.

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.