Wil Shipley Quotes

The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to his mistakes. The same is true of companies. We have to apologize, we have to fix the problem, and we have to learn from our mistakes.

Wil Shipley

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• Mistakes
• Response
• Companies
• Measure
• Apologize

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• Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • You
  • Fool
  • Genius

• More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Country
  • Respect

• I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Mean
  • First
  • Princess

• I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Song
  • Films
  • Advertising

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Home
  • Small
  • Internet

• When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Business
  • Young
  • Show

• It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Great
  • Want
  • Feeling

• I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Look
  • Ordinary

• Beaujolais is so underrated.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Underrated

• My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Imagination

• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Success

• My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Time
  • Me
  • Fly

• God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Unique
  • Celebrate

• I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Age
  • Wanted
  • Nine

• I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Emotional
  • Better

• I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Book
  • Numbers
  • Incredibles

• Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.

  

  Edwin A. Abbott
  • Rule
  • Measure
  • Angels

• Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Failure
  • Attitude
  • Facing

• I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.

  

  David Steel
  • Parliament
  • Initiative
  • Massive

• The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to his mistakes. The same is true of companies. We have to apologize, we have to fix the problem, and we have to learn from our mistakes.

  

  Wil Shipley
  • Problem
  • Mistakes
  • Response