Jeffrey Bewkes Quotes

When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.

My measure of success is whether I'm fulfilling my mission.

The principle that needs to be used to guide the spending is, 'How successful is the program?'

We're thinking of creating a board of experts across the sectors of industry, to identify successful programs and to make recommendations about programs that are working and aren't working.

Just because you're big doesn't mean you're going to be successful. The beauty of the motion picture business is that you can make a little movie like 'Driving Miss Daisy' or 'Rain Man' and go right through the roof. This business is still about creative juices, and size is no guarantee of that.

'What is success?' It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way.

I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right.

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

Spending a few hundred million dollars more a year on evaluations could save tens of billions of dollars by teaching us which programs work and generating lessons to improve programs that don’t

It's better to do a film that works.

Being deemed the most successful at prom does not mean you're going to do the best in your life.

We have programs that are outdated and no longer effective - we need to get rid of those programs.

I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.

You define the success of a player by his loyalty or his titles. Or both.

I count something as successful if it pleases the audience.

It doesn't really count as a great year if the team is not doing well.

But basically, at the end of the day, I want to do meaningful work that I'm proud of - whether only 3 people see it or 300,000,000.

In my opinion, to be No. 1 in the world and to be the best player in the world, it's a little bit different.