Learning's Reward

"In business, you reward people for taking risks. When it doesn't work out, you promote them because they were willing to try new things. If people come back and tell me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to try a different mountain."

(Michael R. Bloomberg. Mayor of New York City and founder of Bloomberg LP, in “The CEO Mayor; How New York's Mike Bloomberg is Creating a New Model for Public Service that Places Pragmatism Before Politics,” by Tom Lowry. Business Week: June 25, 2007. , Iss. 4040; pg. 58)