Business Mistake Quotes

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.

Wells Fargo had a glitch - the truth of the matter is they made a business judgement that was wrong. I don't think anything is fundamentally wrong.

I'll never forget my worst business decision. I bought a Nissan Pathfinder with my first signing bonus. I didn't even have a place to live, but I bought a car. Not a smart move but, believe me, I learned from that mistake.

Well, we all make mistakes, and I've made some; getting involved in a price-cutting campaign in Scotland when the biggest slump in advertising history was just around the corner was a mistake.

Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.

I was stupid in a business way. I should have been greedier.

What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.

For any business, large or small, not to have an e-commerce strategy is a big mistake.

I lost $4 million of other people's money between the ages of 24 and 26.

I found that most people who buy restaurants should never have done it, because they don't understand money.

Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and a half an acre on which a single tree was worth more than a hundred dollars. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain.... a bad, black business from beginning to end.