Biggest Mistake facts
While investigating facts about Biggest Mistake, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Warren Buffet only bought out Berkshire Hathaway, then a struggling textile company, in order to fire its owner due to a personal grudge. Buffet reckons it was his biggest investment mistake, costing him $200 billion in compounded investment returns for buying the company.
GM killed off it's Electric Vehicle, the EV1 because it allegedly threatened the oil industry. Ex-CEO of GM, Rick Wagoner, said the biggest mistake he ever made as chief executive was killing the EV1 car.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 10 of the best facts about Biggest Mistake I managed to collect.
-
Beatles producer George Martin called the decision not to include Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane on Sgt. Pepper the "Biggest mistake of his professional life."
-
John Carpenter offered Christopher Lee the roll of Dr. Loomis in the classic 1978 horror film Halloween. Lee declined due to the low pay, but later said that declining the role was his biggest career mistake.
-
Rudolf Höss, a leader of the Holocaust, warned his elder son in a farewell letter to learn and think for himself and never accept anything without criticism, saying that the biggest mistake of his life was that he "believed everything faithfully which came from the top" and doubted nothing.
-
Warren Buffett claimed that purchasing Berkshire Hathaway was the biggest investment mistake he had ever made, and claimed that it had denied him compounded investment returns of about $200 billion over the subsequent 45 years.
-
Norma McCorvey AKA "Jane Roe", the plaintiff in Roe v Wade, became pro life and stated that her involvement in the case was the biggest mistake of her life
-
Don't judge too early .. Biggest mistake ever
-
The planner of the attack on Pearl Harbor thought that Japan also had to invade Hawaii to win the war. A senior officer later called his opposition of the invasion the "biggest mistake" of his life.
