Brock Lovett on experience working against Titanic's captain

26 years of experience working against him [captain John Edward Smith].  He figures anything big enough to sink the ship they're gonna see in time to turn.  The ship's too big with too small a rudder.  It doesn't corner worth a damn.  Everything he knows is wrong.

~ Brock Lovett (as played by Bill Paxton), treasure hunter in the 1997 movie Titanic

Thomas Phelps on investing, judgment and experience

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.  I've had a great deal of experience.

~ Thomas Phelps, 100 to 1 in the Stock Market: A Distinguished Security Analyst Tells How to Make More of Your Investment Opportunities (1972)

Will Rogers on good judgment

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. 

~ Will Rogers

Ben Horowitz on our own uniqueness

Embrace your weirdness, your background, your instinct.  If the key's are not in there, they do not exist.

~ Ben Horowitz

(Dan Ferris' quote of the week on the Stansberry Investor Hour, 9:10 mark, September 23, 2021)

Charles Akre on judgement

Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement.

~ Charles Akre, GuruFocus Value Conference, 2018

Napoleon Bonaparte on the influence of early experience

Everything you think is colored significantly by the experience you had in your early twenties.

~ Napoleon Bonaparte

(As recounted by Jim Grant in interview with Bill Fleckenstein, 4:00 mark, May 10, 2019)

Warren Buffett on learning from experience

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

~ Warren Buffett

Tom Bodett on experience

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test.  In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

~ Tom Bodett, humorist