lessons from failure Quotes

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.

Nothing fails like success, because we do not learn anything from it. We only learn from failure, but we do not always learn the right things from failure. If there is a failure of expectations, that is, if the messages that we receive are not the same as those we expected, we can make three possible inferences.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.

So much of what I've learned, so much of what's good in my life, was learned because something bad happened, or from making the wrong decision. Through bad decisions I learned how to find the ways to make the right ones.

Experience means you did a lot of things wrong.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

You learn, of course, when you're working with something good, but you also can learn when you're working with things that are not good. You can see the reasons they're not good. I would sometimes suggest what could be done, but essentially say "It isn't worth the bother." So I learned from that process.

Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

Experience comes from bad judgment.

It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?'

All battles have some use, including those in which we were defeated.

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.