Biggest Mistake Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.

  Charlie Munger

  Mistake, Company

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• The best thing a man can do on a first date is be a friend. I think that's the biggest mistake men make on the first date. Just get to know me. Be my friend. Just kick it with me as if I was hanging with a homeboy. It shouldn't be this awkward situation. It should be that we're there, having a great time.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

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• The biggest mistake we make is asking the source to understand scarcity - something that is not! People pray: "Please give me more..." Or, "Please heal me." If you do this, you'll only attract more scarcity into your life. You can't think about what's missing in your life, what you don't like, or what "they" want for you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  Source: www.drwaynedyer.com

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• I think the biggest mistake - I was always a big fan of Cary Grant, and he asked me to do a movie with him, playing the second lead, and I didn't do it. And to this day, I can't remember why. But I could've said I worked with Cary Grant, but I turned him down. That was probably the biggest mistake I ever made.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Mistake, Thinking, Remember

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• The biggest mistake is an over-reliance on data. Managers will say if there are no data they can take no action. However, data only exist about the past. By the time data become conclusive, it is too late to take actions based on those conclusions.

  Clayton Christensen

  Mistake, Past, Action

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The biggest mistake people are making when it comes to fashion is looking in the mirror and thinking you're somebody else. People sit and watch the runway and then some nice little plump lady in Squeedunk will see Angelina Jolie in a very glamorous dress from the runway and she thinks if she buys that dress she'll look like her. It's sad, but it's true.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Mistake, Nice

  Source: www.elle.com

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• What happens when you get a big break and you haven't prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you've ever made. I see it happen all the time.

  Quincy Jones

  Mistake, Break

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• I think there is nothing that can replace your emotional response. The biggest mistakes I have ever made in my life are when people told me, "You really should produce this. It's a guaranteed hit." I would read the material and I would go, "I don't get it, but okay, I'll produce it." You're giving up that much of your life, your time with family and friends, to something that you're not really committed to - and they did not pan out the way everyone said they would, even though I worked just as hard.

  Gale Anne Hurd

  Giving Up, Mistake, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating kind of software that could help change the lives of millions of people. And basically what I did is I kind of went, okay, well, I need a set of titles and I need a checklist of skills, and I ran through all that, and that wasn't a useless thing, but what I didn't realize, and, you know, and no one gave me the right advice for doing this, is that actually your network, in essentially, is your career.

  Reid Hoffman

  Mistake, Useless Things, Skills

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The biggest mistake people make is assuming that their dogs think like little humans, and that they can negotiate behavior with them, but it doesn't work that way.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• It's the engine. They should have never had that. The biggest mistake people have made... I say, "people," because it wasn't just me alone, was not insisting Mercedes supply Red Bull an engine. Because had they supplied the same engine as they had, you would have seen good racing, you would have seen Red Bull up there last year.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Mistake, Should Have, Years

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• I'm sorry, if you've been married for five minutes, you've sacrificed something, you've looked over at your partner and have gone, "Oh my God this is the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life." And then the next moment it's "This is the most beautiful and extraordinary human being, and I'm going to stick with it because I love them more than anyone else." That monologue to me is the universal thing, especially for women because I feel like that's the big thing with women.

  Viola Davis

  Beautiful, Sorry, Mistake

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Newt Gingrich called it [Donald] Trump`s biggest mistake since he won the election, these crazy accusations about voter fraud.

  Chuck Todd

  Crazy, Mistake, Voter Fraud

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The biggest mistake I ever made was snorting cocaine. The second biggest mistake was I didn't realize that show business was two words.

  Larry Gatlin

  Mistake, Two, Realizing

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• One of the biggest mistakes large companies make is creating innovation teams that mirror all the functions of the core business. Those teams make no progress because they spent forever updating each other on what they are doing versus really crushing the most critical problems they need to address.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Crush, Mistake, Team

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One of the biggest mistakes celebrities make is being overly friendly. They allow photo shoots in their homes, even their bedrooms and bathrooms; they send fans autographed pictures. All that serves to support viewers with a delusional relationship with the celebrity.

  Park Dietz

  Mistake, Home, Support

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

  Dick Cavett

  Mistake, Book, Made

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 9, 2010.

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• My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber for a mandate he gave me after I left office... My biggest mistake in life, by far, was ever agreeing to be introduced to Karlheinz Schreiber in the first place.

  Brian Mulroney

  Mistake, Trying, Paying Taxes

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• One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mistake, Believe, Way

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• The biggest mistake Barack Obama could have made is to change quite a few things in his Afghanistan policy. He increased the number of troops and at the same time set the US withdrawal date to 2014. Now the United States has to ensure that Afghanistan does not immediately collapse after being left to itself in 2014.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Mistake, Afghanistan, Policy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is to embrace the idea of spurring creativity by letting hundreds of flowers bloom. I've never seen that lead to anything other than cynicism and hundreds of dead flowers.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Mistake, Flower, Creativity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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