Risky Venture Quotes

When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.

No one goes to Pakistan to make movies. You stick out.

I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

I regret the Pro Fit investment because I didn't know that I was dealing with people who were more concerned about the exposure than fixing their business.

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

Motorsport is very expensive. No one cares if you had a good season two years ago and then you have an injury. It is a very dodgy investment.

A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture.

Those big films are scary things. There's so much money behind those things. There's that hype. You enter a machine.

An undertaking beset with danger.

Theater is a gamble and a tough road.

We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with.

I think I'll not attempt to do a 'Fish Out Of Water 2.'

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.

It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.

If I'd had a charisma-ectomy in the beginning, XP would have gone nowhere.

I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They weren't wanting to necessarily support an acting career; it's a really fickle business, and it can be difficult and unstable. They were rooting for education and the whole nine yards.

If you can imagine what it's like to launch a business in the middle of a lawsuit - it's not an easy thing.

He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting.

I didn't want 'Hotel Transylvania' to be the nail in the coffin for cartoony animation. Because if the movie failed, I could see people blaming that aspect of it. I was really nervous about that.

Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.