Ben Huh Quotes

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

Practicing hard doesn't guarantee you anything.

Luck is not a business model.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

Some you win some you lose.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

My whole life has been about risk and reward.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

You can never assume that something is going to do well.

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

I think you end up on the lucky side, or you don't.

I had no idea if 'No Roots' was going to work or not.

With risk, sometimes you have tremendous success, sometimes not so much.