Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.

Pete Seeger

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Vernon Law

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make

Donald Trump

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it.

Bernard Baruch

Everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Lou Holtz

To succeed early in life, choose the quickest way: Learn all you can from others. We can’t learn soon enough from our own experience to succeed when young.

Author Unknown

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

Mark Twain

I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Martha Washington

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

James Russell Miller

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity

J. C. Penney