Learning from Others Quotes

Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.

I believe that you become a better actor only when you work with people far better than you are.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

One of the things I'm best at is modeling. I find someone who is best at something I want to learn. Then I model them, and learn it myself. Then, when I've proven it to myself, I teach it to others.

Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.

I never met a person from whom I did not learn something.

Experience is the best teacher. But in our day and time, what we need is wisdom, because wisdom overcomes experience, because experience is wisdom, but there's a level of wisdom that overcomes the experience, and that's the experience that's already lived by others. I'm not trying to repeat the histories. I already learned from what they did.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

I'd bite off the Beatles, or anybody else. It's all one world, one planet and one groove. You're supposed to learn from each other, blend from each other, and it moves around like that.

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.

If I know somebody's right about something I take it from them.