Source: Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000
“The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.”
Source: 1984
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“You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.”
Referring to Napoleon III, in "Mistaken Lessons from the Past", The Listener (6 June 1963)
Source: Website of Mehr News Agency, 2017 http://www.mehrnews.com/news/3954046/%D9%BE%D8%B0%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B4-%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A7-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B6%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA
Source: Leadership Gold: Lessons I've Learned from a Lifetime of Leading
“We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.”
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