Jerry Jones Quotes

No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

A game is not won until it is lost.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

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.

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

If you make enough decisions in life, you’re bound to make some of them wrong.

There are going to be screw-ups, mistakes, confusion, and missteps. One hopes they won’t be fatal.

Bad things can happen even to the best players.

When anything can happen, everything matters.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

I believe - deeply and profoundly - that speculation is a loser's game.

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.