We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.
Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
You learn in the pros that errors can be costly.
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.
I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.
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.
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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