Mistake Quotes (677 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Jeff Zucker
„I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.“
― Jeff Zucker ―
Picture of quotation author George Zimmer
„We rent one in three tuxedos in the U.S. and Canada, and if we make a mistake, our employees will deliver to the customer's home, office, or wedding. We get a couple hundred letters a week praising the service in our stores.“
― George Zimmer ―
Picture of quotation author Niklas Zennstrom
„I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of the times and that's part of the risk profile being an entrepreneur. I guess one big mistake I did was not to start my own company earlier. I spent nine years working for others before starting Kazaa in 2000.“
Picture of quotation author Meles Zenawi
„The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.“
― Meles Zenawi ―
Picture of quotation author Mark Zandi
„The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.“
― Mark Zandi ―
Picture of quotation author Eliezer Yudkowsky
„If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on realizing that they have actually destroyed the world. Therefore I suggest that if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.“
Picture of quotation author Neil Young
„I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.“
― Neil Young ―
Picture of quotation author John Yoo
„It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks.“
― John Yoo ―
Picture of quotation author Boris Yeltsin
„I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.“
― Boris Yeltsin ―
Picture of quotation author Ed Wynn
„A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.“
― Ed Wynn ―
Picture of quotation author Andrew Wyatt
„I think it's always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you're able to do.“
― Andrew Wyatt ―
Picture of quotation author Bob Woodward
„Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.“
― Bob Woodward ―
Picture of quotation author John Wooden
„Never mistake activity for achievement.“
― John Wooden ―
Picture of quotation author Trinny Woodall
„Shorts are practically a uniform in every woman's closet. Tailored shorts are okay for running around, and if you're 18, you can get away with cut-offs. But it's very easy to make a mistake with shorts.“
― Trinny Woodall ―
Picture of quotation author Paul Wolfowitz
„I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.“
― Paul Wolfowitz ―
Picture of quotation author Naomi Wolf
„Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'“
― Naomi Wolf ―
Picture of quotation author Steve Winwood
„If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.“
― Steve Winwood ―
Picture of quotation author Kate Winslet
„You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.“
― Kate Winslet ―
Picture of quotation author Woodrow Wilson
„We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.“
― Woodrow Wilson ―
Picture of quotation author Earl Wilson
„Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.“
― Earl Wilson ―

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