“Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.”
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American motivational speaker 1926–2012Related quotes

Source: Leadership Gold: Lessons I've Learned from a Lifetime of Leading

“It is better to learn from the mistakes of others than that others should learn from you.”
Te de aliis, quam alios de te suaviu’st.
Persa, Act IV, scene 3, line 70
Variant translation: ’Tis sweeter far wisdom to gain from other’s woes, than others should learn from ours. (translation by Bonnell Thornton)
Persa (The Persian)

“It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.”

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 175