Adam Rayner Quotes

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

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.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

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.

It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.

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

You have to expect failure; not everything is going to work.

You cant be afraid to take a risk. You can't be afraid to take a risk because you think you might fail.

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

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

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

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

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

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

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

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

I've done a lot of shows that didn't do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.