Alice Foote MacDougall Quotes

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.

I have been around this long enough to know that there are no givens in this particular sport. There are too many things that can go wrong. There are too many things that can change.

Not all change and disruption succeeds, to be sure.

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

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

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

If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

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.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

It's feast or famine in showbiz.

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

Success and failure are equally surprising.