Executives who fail to learn this lesson are often let go despite their track record.
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Banks, hospitals, insurance companies, auto makers and airlines could learn this lesson from Steve.
Other bank CEOs will no doubt learn the lesson of the bungled Citigroup power transition.
Keynes saw the world learn that lesson the hard way in the years after World War I.
Some buyers of Wright homes didn't learn that lesson until their deals closed.
Facebook did seem to learn a lesson from the December 2009 privacy debacle.
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Perhaps global business and political leaders could learn a lesson or two from successful business leaders in the BRIC economies.
If policymakers learn that lesson from Greenspan's era and its aftermath, then, perversely, Alan Greenspan's legacy will be a positive one.
That leads to the next big question: did Taymor learn her lesson?
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The Republicans in Congress are melting down as they learn that lesson.
"They were doing well for the first half hour and then lost the place, so I hope they learn their lesson, " he added.
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The only question that remains is whether Obama will learn the lesson of this history or will he just continue along the same path.
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It's not just foreign companies that need to learn this lesson.
"Now we need to sit and read the whole document, analyse it legally, " he said, adding that Poland "had to learn this lesson the hard way".
Not until they learn the lesson of disunity - as did Labour in the 1990s - will they truly get their act together, it is argued.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Researcher Jared Diamond, the author of "The World Until Yesterday, " says Congress could learn a lesson from tribal societies: Listen to your elders.
So, kiddies, you should learn this lesson early: those that will influence your professional futures are coming to peek at your online footprint, so set your privacy settings accordingly.
What we need to do is learn our lesson.
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"Coach said if we learn our lesson from the game against Notre Dame and it helps us to win a lot of games, then it was worth it, " Dieng said of Louisville's inside game.
O'Donnell will play Katie O'Grady, an old high school friend of Fran (Drescher) and Judi (Tichina Arnold) who arrives to help Fran learn a lesson about her relationship with her overbearing mother Dori (Rita Moreno).
Now, of course, it's time for the Boy Scouts themselves to learn a lesson about adaptability one that I fear may be coming too late to save the group from its long decline in numbers and influence.
So another possibility, suggests Mark Kiesel of PIMCO, an American bond-investment firm, is that hedge funds and dealers will have their wrists badly smacked, learn a lesson and dedicate themselves henceforth to fundamental credit analysis and due diligence.
He earned loud cheers from delegates for attacking what he called Britain's "fast buck" culture - saying the country had to learn the lesson that "growth is built on sand if it comes from our predators and not our producers".
He seemed to learn a lesson at a Latin American summit this month, that agricultural subsidies in place in the US and other countries can really complicate new trade deals, and he wants nations to come to the table and discuss whether those subsidies are really needed, and he wants to use this summit to get those conversations really moving.
What's going on here is that we're in uncharted territory, a world where the Fed and the Treasury are making up the rules as they go along, where accountability is being ignored and a world where the government bails out Bear Stearns and its creditors rather than letting those who have been reckless learn a lesson for the next time.
And afterward, to avoid future Bosnias and future Kosovos, we will learn the lesson of the Marshall Plan and what we did for eastern Europe after the Berlin Wall fell, by working with our European allies to build prosperity and cooperation in southeastern Europe so that there will be stronger forces pulling people together than those that are driving them apart.
But he did learn a valuable lesson: Double-check the serial number on the box.
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