Jerry Jones Quotes

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

I've learned to never rule anything in or out.

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player.

Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making - I don't like knee jerk decisions - but I'm not afraid to make decisions.

Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.

It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Making decisions quickly isn't for everyone, and I've had my disasters, but overall, it works for me.

I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.

Sometimes hard decisions have to be made, and sometimes wonderful decisions have to be made. You've got to be willing to make them all.