Costly Mistakes Quotes

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

You learn in the pros that errors can be costly.

I had the biggest dry-cleaning bill on 'Daybreak' because I was always on the run and spilling coffee on myself.

Inaccurate analysis produces faulty insights and bad decisions - which lead to losing a tremendous amount of money.

We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

Mistakes only cost you when you don't acknowledge them.

Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.

After nearly making a terrible mistake not buying See's, we've made this mistake many times. We are apparently slow learners. These opportunity costs don't show up on financial statements, but have cost us many billions.

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.

When I do something stupid with money and lose it....I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am expert.

If you get out back-to-back in T20s, it proves costly.

There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

[Referring to the Pentagon:] It's a mammoth place that makes an incredible number of mistakes.

The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

Five turnovers in the second half; you can't beat anybody doing that.

One economic blunder invariably brings in its train a series of blunders, each one more fruitful of disaster than the first.

Many people don't understand that in filmmaking, if you make a fundamental mistake, everything goes wrong - but you don't realise it till the film is made.

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.