Quotes About Outcome

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

Sometimes, waiting for too long for the right film may fall flat.

Sometimes you do films that work really well and sometimes you do a film and you fall flat on your face. Sometimes things work, sometimes things don't work, you never know. I don't think there is any explanation to something like that.

The scoreline is a bit flattering really.

You can't flirt with relegation every year.

When you're prepared, and you do the best you can do, and you put it out there on the floor, you've just got to live with the results.

Your film is a hit, you bathe in champagne; it flops, a single malt lessens the pain.

I tend to go with the flow and that flow can end up in great places or not so great places.

You never know why a film gets accepted and why it doesn't. I have learnt to just go with the flow.

From watching the draft and following the NFL closely, anything can happen in the draft. But to me, it's not where I get drafted that matters to me, to be completely honest.

The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up.

Sometimes you lose; that is football.

That is a football game, you don't know what is going to happen when you play.

Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.

There really isn't a formula for success.

I'm somebody who takes risks, for better or worse. Fortunately, most of them have been for the better!

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

It's very frustrating when you don't always get the right kind of rub - you watch tennis and know if you play better than the other guy, you win. But that's the game we play. It can create mini-upsets.