Ted Sarandos Quotes

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

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.

Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.

Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it's building shows to back up that hit show; it's creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.

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

Being an executive producer allows me the opportunity to create original content, and I can't wait to show my fans what we have in store on 'Kocktails with Khloe.'

You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

I think the biggest issue for legacy media - both TV and film - is that it just costs too much money to develop a TV series or movie. And most of them don't work. Then the one that works has to pay for the rest.

It's sobering to think of the seventeen chief justices; certainly a solid majority of them have to be characterized as failures. The successful ones are hard to number.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Don’t expect to succeed with most of your efforts. Ted Williams, the best baseball hitter of all time, in his best hear only hit 407. He did not succeed 60 percent of the time.

Why are you calling it a failure rate at this airport. Why not say success rate?

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

Look at MIT—the smartest people in the world. They start up 50 companies a year. Only 1 makes it.

In technology, most things fail. Most companies fail.

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.

While 'The Owner's Manual' is not a formula for guaranteed success by any means, we're confident it will help reduce the failure rate of most startups that use our Customer Development process.

No actor has 100 percent track record.

I tell founders all the time, 99.9 percent chance of failure.

You can't look into a crystal ball but what you can say is if money is put on the table and you get half your signings right then you are going to be better next time around.

Working in MTV's development team, my days would consist of pitches and deciding which concepts we wanted to buy. We would then develop those into a pilot. Very few ended up making it to a full series, but if they did, I would manage the project alongside the show's creators.