Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It's really sad.
I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails.
Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.
It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.
No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.
Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.
There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.
Things have a tendency in the film business to fall apart more often than they come together.
In technology, most things fail. Most companies fail.
Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process.
The failure rate for gym owners and personal trainers is very high because it is very difficult for them to work on their business when they are busy working in their business.
Seriously. Dados bounce." Bobby in Raven Rise
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.
Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
While we talk about successes, I think it's also important to talk about all the failures. Like, for every Netflix special, there's things that don't work.
In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.
You're not going to win all the time.
Most turnarounds don’t turn.
The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?
Big bureaucracies in business and government—they fail too.
When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.
Certainly the attrition rate of Hollywood couples looms large.
