"Maybe we don't put our young people..." - Quote by Colin Powell
Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.
More by Colin Powell
“Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered.”
“Be careful what you choose: You may get it.”
“The great leaders that I have worked with are people who have a good sense of empathy with other people. They can walk a factory floor, or walk through a battalion and smell if there's something wrong.”
More on Failure
“The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.”
“The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying”
“I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.”
More on Learning
“Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and animals and a myriad of objects have each suggesting something, contributed something.”
“For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.”
“The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.”