Val Kilmer Quotes

Entrepreneurs go through real problems and come up with real solutions. It's not fake. You can do all the right things and still lose. You can do all the wrong things and still will.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.

To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can't guarantee it just by following someone else's formula.

My only "business plan" was to get lucky.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

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.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.

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

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

WeWork is my fifth venture. I failed in my first, second and third, had mediocre success in the fourth.

I guess you can say I always liked to take chances. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't.

Everything I do sort of goes wrong but I always sort of get away with it.

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.

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

People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don't end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.

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.

Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.

Every project for me is a risk that I bet on. I believe my senses, and hopefully it will be successful. But sometimes you make it, and sometimes you fail.