Robert Gottlieb Quotes

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.

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

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

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.

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

Even if you play, you know, the best player in the world... you have a chance.

There are games when you do well, and others that go differently.

In football, there are no guarantees.

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

It's a miracle when something actually turns out well because there are so many ways for it to go wrong.

I have been incredibly lucky with my novels but I had absolutely no idea if anyone would be interested in a cookbook. So I started to think about self-publishing.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

Some you win some you lose.

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

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

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

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 you succeed and sometimes you don't.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

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

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

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

You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.