The biggest mistake in my life was hiring Eaton as chairman without checking him out first, ... I didn't know him and hired the wrong guy, an error of judgment. When you make a bad people choice it hurts a lot of people for a long time.
If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.
I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.
Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.
The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.