Michael Ritchie Quotes

I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.

Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.

Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

Customer satisfaction is worthless. Customer loyalty is priceless.

There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.

What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.

I think a fan is a fan and when they support you and when they love you and when they embrace you and what you bring to the table, as long as you bring something that's quality to the table they're going to show up and support it.

It's very hard to establish an economy of trustworthiness. The key is continuing to innovate and to keep your customers through innovation, because the customers can leave. But once you are a dominant player that continues to innovate and provide a good deal, customers will stay with you.

 My 14-year-old grandniece is not allowed to watch 'American Horror Story' yet.

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

No rash decisions. No big commitments. Each day as it comes.

Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

I stick to safe, controlled movement. If it's not safe, I just won't do it.

Let every man look before he leaps.

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

I don't like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures.

My objective is to satisfy [my] audience so they come back the next day.

People fight for their regulars. It gets dirty sometimes.

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

In the US everybody is about what's new and what's next and they don't really build a real loyalty as much as in Europe - if you were ever good and they liked you, they will treat it with the respect that it still matters.

It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.

What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.