“Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.”

“He who does nothing makes no mistakes; he who makes no mistakes learns nothing.”

“Take chances! Get messy! Make mistakes!”

“Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all — they are attempting nothing new.”

“one who makes no mistakes makes nothing”

“Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active—of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.”

“He who never makes a mistake, never makes anything.”

“When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.”

“In life, those who want to be happy make mistakes.”

“If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.”