Costly Mistake Quotes

The Vietnam War was not clearly a wrong war, but it was clear that it was stupid.

I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.

They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

The plumber he says, never flush a tampon. This is great information, cost me half a weeks pay.

When I was young and foolish, and I had no money, I bought myself the carcass of a Jaguar E-Type. It was a rust bucket. I spent all my university savings trying to fix the car. I never did, and I finally sold it to recover at least part of my investment.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

I once bought an ill-advised half cashmere, half camel hair jumper for £800, then ruined it by spilling a pint of Guinness all over it.

You've got to really check on what you're doing: check and recheck it seven other times to be prepared. Sometimes, people get carried away with the artistic-ness of the endeavor and don't quite have their game face on when the time comes. It's always a pretty costly mistake.

They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again.

The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless.

The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.

If you make a mistake, your opponent can punish, and you end up losing the game.

You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.

A long time ago, we had to build interfaces to connect with other companies, and I thought that was a great idea. The company had to pay a lot of money to build it and basically launched it, but our whole operating system almost broke. So, we couldn't continue it. In the end, I had to go on the train to Paris to explain that I had spent millions.

If I was crazy, I'd throw the ball into the stands with the bases loaded. Now, that's crazy. If I was stupid, I'd throw the ball into center field with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count on the hitter. Now, that's stupid.

If you make mistakes, it can cost you.

Freak mistakes happen sometimes as a goalkeeper that if you make them, then it's always going to bite you.

Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest!

Sometimes the only way to realize what a foolish purchase is is to make one.

The Iraq War is an incredibly strategic blunder of enormous proportions …. There was not an exit strategy because the people planning this war didn’t intend to leave.