Biggest Mistake Quotes

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

  Olivia Newton-John

  Wisdom, Mistake, Lessons

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• The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

  Dorothy Day

  Mistake, Play, Safe

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  The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

  Peter McWilliams

  Success, Motivation, Mistake

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Positive, Jobs

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.164, Lulu.com

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• I've also learned that the biggest lessons came from my biggest mistakes.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Mistake, Entrepreneur, Lessons

  Gurbaksh Chahal (2008). “The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions”, p.71, Macmillan

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• When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

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  The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

  Deborah Tannen

  Mistake, Believe, Communication

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.

  Earl Nightingale

  Mistake, Believe, Careers

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.164, Lulu.com

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• One of the biggest mistakes that most people make is clinging to the excuse that the time isn't quite right to take action. Well, let me tell you something: In my experience, conditions are never right at the right time. The timing is always wrong. So if you're waiting for everything to be perfect before taking action, you have a foolproof excuse for never taking action.

  Robert Ringer

  Mistake, Perfect, People

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• If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mistake, Lessons, I've Learned

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• This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Mistake, Thinking

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.286, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself

  Brian Tracy

  Business, Mistake, Life Changing

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• People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.

  Noah Weinberg

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Mistake, Thinking, Years

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• Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Mistake, Should, Investors

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• The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

  Mehmet Oz

  Mistake, People, Trying

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• The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.

  Cindy Gallop

  Mistake, Fire, Long

  "How Cindy Gallop Broke Through the "Thick Layer of Men" and Became the Counterpoint to Porn". Interview with Leslie Bradshaw, www.forbes.com. August 10, 2011.

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• The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel about something today with the way we felt about it yesterday. You shouldn’t even bother doing it. You should just figure out the way you feel today and if it happens to comply with what you thought before, fine. If it contradicts it, whatever. Life goes on.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mistake, Yesterday, Squares

  "Malcolm Gladwell: 'No one thinks of me as a potential terrorist any more'" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2014.

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• The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.

  Gregory Benford

  Mistake

  Gregory Benford, Larry Niven (2014). “Shipstar: A Science Fiction Novel”, p.402, Macmillan

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• Getting married in four days was the biggest... mistake I've ever made. I have two beautiful kids, but... how can you know somebody in four days? Bonehead.

  Tommy Lee

  Beautiful, Mistake, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.

  Susan Blackmore

  Mistake, Thinking, People

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• The single biggest mistake, I think, is giving up too soon.

  John Kremer

  Giving Up, Mistake, Thinking

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• I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.

  John Jay Hooker

  Mistake, Believe, Agreement

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• I've learned about employee relations; I've learned about following your instinct. One of the biggest mistakes you can follow is not following your instincts, you know? A lot of times your instincts will tell you what to do if you have a good one. Now, if your instincts are terrible, then you ask for advice. But if you have good instincts, you definitely have to follow them, or else you regret them.

  Venus Williams

  Regret, Mistake, Advice

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