Quotes About Business Mistakes

#1. Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.

Warren Buffett

#2. I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though.

Richard Branson

#3. Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it's when things are going well it covers up a lot of mistakes and bad decisions because you're growing so quickly ...

Tony Hsieh

#4. You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

Sam Walton

#5. In business, you learn from mistakes. In government, they never do.

Rick Scott

#6. One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

Joshua Waitzkin

#7. As an entrepreneur building a multimillion-dollar business, your failures are going to be your greatest assets, provided you have a philosophy that addresses mistakes, strives to understand them, learns the key elements in them, and turns them into successes.

Ryan Blair

#8. When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.

Hulk Hogan

#9. An entrepreneur is someone who can make enough money to pay for their mistakes.

Jayson Gaignard

#10. Answers are free, mistakes are costly.

Danielle Tate

#11. Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. There is no learning without mistakes

Mary Walton

#13. I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

James Altucher

#14. Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Conrad Hilton

#15. Quotes = Success
Music = Success
Failure = Success
Loyalty = Success
Books = Success
Mistakes = Success
...
These are the lessons for today, try to put them in your bag and start using them one by one!

Deyth Banger

#16. One of the biggest mistakes women make in business is that they aren't friendly enough.

Charlotte Beers

#17. I made mistakes, but I'm luckier than most. I've got a successful business, lots of fans who think a lot of me and a family who loves me.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#18. I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels and we didn't have any music business savvy which we could have used. We made a series of hilarious mistakes not in terms of music but in terms of making it happen.

Arto Lindsay

#19. Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Robert Kiyosaki

#20. If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

Sallie Krawcheck

#21. I've made mistakes in business, but none so big I couldn't recover and learn from them. The more you try to change consumer behaviour, the riskier it gets. You have to work out your potential losses against the obvious gains.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#22. Entrepreneurs who dip into soccer also keep making the same mistakes. They buy clubs promising to run them "like a business" and disappear a few seasons later amid the same public derision as the previous owners.

Simon Kuper

#23. Failure promotes success only if you actually take the time to analyze your mistakes.." "Failure has to be separated from fault, and for many people that requires a bit of deprogramming, as we learn early on that they are one and the same." "In this framework, intention is extremely important.

Amanda Lang

#24. The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.

Paul Westerberg

#25. People must make make risks, must make mess in their life's. They must make make mistakes, they must think - This is the part of the proccess "learning"!

Deyth Banger

#26. Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

Pablo Picasso

#27. While mistakes may be local, in today's connected world embarrassment is global

Gyan Nagpal

#28. Most of the heroes of Scripture rose to their greatest victories after their worst mistakes. God is in the redemption business, and He testifies of this through the lives of everyone He calls.

Rick Joyner

#29. The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.

Warren Buffett

#30. What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they can know nothing and think they know a great deal.

Florence Nightingale

#31. My life, my choices, my mistakes, my lessons- NOT YOUR BUSINESS.

Wiz Khalifa

#32. I love people who make mistakes. That's why I'm in the teaching business. I love people who make mistakes because I enjoy watching them learn and helping them, assisting them. I find it a beautiful process.

Frederick Lenz

#33. Be a smart learner. Learn from your mistakes and adjust your behavior accordingly.

Ehab Atalla

#34. War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#35. Your mistakes aren't learning experiences ... if you aren't learning from them.

Loren Weisman

#36. Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.

Sophia Bush

#37. Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

William Feather

#38. One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Richard Branson

#39. Everybody who goes through the business will make mistakes. The big question is how big will the mistakes be? How fast will they learn from the mistakes, and how quickly will they get the business in the correct direction?

Fred DeLuca

#40. What you did in the past is your business. Those were your choices - your mistakes - if you even believe they were mistakes. Stop caring what anyone thinks and live your life the way you want to live it.

Laura Wright

#41. Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.

Meridith Valiando Rojas

#42. Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Bill Cosby

#43. We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Terry Hands

#44. You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!

Chris Corrigan

#45. I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.

Ann Beattie

#46. No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

Daymond John

#47. Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!

Tom Peters

#48. The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still have the mine. You still have oil wells. You can always rebuild. In a knowledge economy, if you make a mistake, you're in trouble.

Juan Enriquez

#49. If you aim to be the best then it's essential to evolve constantly, learn from past mistakes, look for new opportunities and have the flexibility to implement improved processes and solutions along the way.

Mark Gallagher

#50. Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road.

Daymond John

#51. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Steve Jobs

#52. In the end, it is your responsibility to read the small print, whether it is for gig contracts, record contracts, investors, management, booking agents, or anything else. You can blame everyone else for your mistakes, but when you make them, you end up being the one who has to pay.

Loren Weisman