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"If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right."
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"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal."
"I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self."
"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
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"I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about."
"I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company."
"One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century."
"I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family."
"And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake."
"If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit."
"I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me."
"From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness."
"And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in."
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