On the road to success you cannot underestimate learning from other people's experiences that have already gone through the business path that you want to take, otherwise you can make costly mistakes that you would've avoided if you've learned from their experiences. But I can agree that after learning from them that you should be the one to decide your own part, what you've learned from other experienced people will serve as a guide to you, so you can have a clearer vision from different perspectives. It's good to learn from your own personal, but we can not discard the experiences of successful people
I agree with you on this, success come with learning and if you must learn, you are meant to meet different people with different thinking and mindset, but as a human you should be able to identify good and bad and all time, experience matters in all we though not only in business setting but all areas of life, as someone who wants to grow financially you need people that has gone through such experience, lets also understand understand that temptation is always available once you want to progress and that's why we should know people that we listen to so that we won't miss it all in the journey to wealth.
But the major path to follow if you really want to be successful in life, you must be strategic in your plans, think before you execute it business plan, check out for profitable and trusted investments and always ask question once you are confused about a situation so that you won't make a regrettable mistake.