“One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.”

“A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."”

“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”

“Nothing fails like success, because we do not learn anything from it. We only learn from failure, but we do not always learn the right things from failure. If there is a failure of expectations, that is, if the messages that we receive are not the same as those we expected, we can make three possible inferences.”

“Learning how to tell people to f**k off is one of the best things you can learn to do for your business.”

“You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.”

“Managers cannot learn from doing things right, only from doing them wrong”

“I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.”

“The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.”

“The great books … afford us the best examples of man's efforts to seek the truth, both about the nature of things and about human conduct, by methods other than those of experimental science; and because these examples are presented in the context of equally striking examples of man's efforts to learn by experiment … the great books provide us with the best materials for judging whether the experimental method is or is not the only acceptable method of inquiry into all things.”