Quotes about Growth

You can't change your past, but you can change your mind about your past.

These are lessons Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars certainly takes to heart.

In school you're rewarded for not making mistakes.

Come to think it over, I don't entirely agree with it myself. Not everything I wrote yesterday appeals to me today. I am glad to learn what you think on the subject. The next time you are in the neighborhood you must visit us and we'll get this subject threshed out for all time. So here is a handclasp over the miles, and I am, Yours sincerely

This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.2

If, as a result of reading this book, you get only one thing—an increased tendency to think always in terms of the other person's point of view, and see things from that person's angle as well as your own—if you get only that one thing from this book, it may easily prove to be one of the stepping-stones of your career.

For life is too short to be little.

There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analysing our past mistakes and profiting by them-and forgetting them.

We are not empathetic creatures naturally, so we must work at it.

PRINCIPLE 3 Talk about your own mistakes before criticising the other person.

As I look back now I wonder how I was ever able to sell anything. I lost years of my life in scrapping and arguing. I keep my mouth shut now. It pays.

I often think if I had known these things sooner, how different my business would be today.