How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It's crazy. I've made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.
I made lots of mistakes - the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.
Whenever we try something new, mistakes will happen. Seemingly good ideas will fail and need to be re-thought.
I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.
When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes - because you will anyway - and remember that small stuff stinks but that it's also essential.
Start-ups often die in the first 18 to 24 months because of formative mistakes, like choosing a bad co-founder or the wrong corporate entity or an inappropriate platform. Ninety percent of the companies the Founder Institute has created are alive because we've helped them avoid those mistakes.
I'm hoping that other people can learn from me, both the mistakes I've made or the opportunities I've had, or for the decisions I've made: for instance, not to go and take a lot of different jobs in a lot of different places, but to stay in one place for most of my career.
