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Tag Tag Continuous improvement
The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.
Bill Gates Source Code · 2025

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“I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.”

Charlie Munger · 2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, 2017 · Primary source

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

Bill Gates · Business @ the Speed of Thought, 1999 · Primary source

“Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.”

Bill Gates · Business @ the Speed of Thought, 1999 · Primary source

“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, and at the end of the day—if you live long enough—like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.”

Charlie Munger · Poor Charlie’s Almanack, 2005 · Primary source

“It goes without saying that we live with Vitsoe furniture systems; first, because I have only ever designed furniture that I myself would like to have, and second, getting to know the systems in daily use allows me to better recognise where they might be improved or developed further.”

Dieter Rams · Less but better, 1995 · Primary source

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