Marcel Carne Quotes

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

When you look at every studio in the '20s or '30s, from Louis B. Mayer to Jack Warner, you see people who started with one plan and quickly shifted gears to adapt to a changing world. One of my favorite stories is that Walt Disney mortgaged his house to make 'Snow White.' He saw there was a real opportunity to change the world.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

Running a fashion business takes the heart of a good gambler. You're always dealing with new things. And there's no guarantee that anything new is going to be successful.

At Nintendo, we do not run from risk. We run to it.

My mother was from an entrepreneurial family and very creative. She always pushed me to take risks, to do things I wouldn't have thought of.

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

Some people are just more prepared to take risks than others. I grew up a gambler. That's my name: Maverick.

Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.

I'm not one for conventional wisdom. I founded my label in 1998, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my Japanese backers pulled out, and I couldn't afford to produce the line myself. I needed fresh ideas from someone who understood technology, since that was the direction the business was going.

True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.

One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just have to take a chance.

Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.

There are some keys to success in the fad business. One is never give up. You need total motivation and the right kind of creativity. You also have to back the right activity. It is a disaster if you back the wrong idea with your energy. You not only lose money, but you take a big social risk.

I realised that being a mother is similar to being an entrepreneur. You set up a system that is your family and you invest... you take risks and you actually have the most important job of rearing up the future of not just your family or an individual, but of the entire world. That is a tough and risky job.

The frustration of a movie is that you are creating a new business every time you go off to make one, and in a funny way, that's what's exciting.

I don't know if there's a genetic marker for entrepreneurship. But if there is, it's most likely not a genius for planning. It's a propensity for action - and the ability to put failure behind you quickly. To stop being precious about your ideas.

The only rollercoasters I get on are startups.

I'm quite cautious in most areas of my life, but I'm always happy to gamble when it comes to acting. I'm not frightened of falling on my face.

Navigating the studio system has its own challenges, and, as a producer, you want to be astute and clever.

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.