Variant: He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.
Source: Revenge of the Witch
“The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.”
“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
As quoted by Jacob A. Riis in Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen (1904), chapter XVI A Young Men's Hero http://www.bartleby.com/206/16.html
1900s
“Never confuse perfection with production. People who don’t make mistakes aren’t doing anything.”
Source: Ancient Shores (1996), Chapter 6 (p. 55)
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
As quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 93
Attributed
“He who does nothing makes no mistakes; he who makes no mistakes learns nothing.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
Variant: A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”
As quoted in On Relationships: A Book for Teenagers (1999) by Kimberly Kirberger
“The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving towards the grand fallacy.”
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 154
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 147
Book Two in 'The Extraction of the Master', P/V, here Woland addresses Margarita
The Master and Margarita (1967)
