I don't want to repeat my mistakes.
I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.
My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.
If you spend most of your effort preventing bad things from happening you will also prevent many good things from happening.
I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel
Don't slip into the traps, and don't forget about your 'hood, the kids in the 'hood. Remember, you're disposable, so take advantage while you can.
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.
My view was that if you're going to make a mistake in your predictions, make sure you make them the right way. Don't put yourself into a situation where, in fact, you say you're going to do something, and then all of a sudden you can't.
Do we have a guide to help us choose the right and avoid dangerous detours? I have tried to pattern my life after the Master. Whenever I have a difficult decision to make, I have looked at that picture and asked myself, "What would He do?" Then I try to do it. We can never go wrong when we choose to follow the Savior.
I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.
Teach yourself from others' mistakes.
Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.
Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.
It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.
I know the different ways that I have lost. I think that's beneficial to me because I know how I got in those situations in the past, and I know how to avoid those situations.
It would have been very easy to play to the gallery, but I took a conscious decision not to do that. Safer not to be too popular. You can't fall too far.
That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.
It's as much looking out your rear-view mirror as the windshield. You want to make sure you put your car in front of the right line. You're constantly looking behind you.
