Orville Wright Quotes

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'

Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

Markets work when people can evaluate the prices and risks of different products, then pick the ones that work best for them. But when the terms of the deal are hidden, competition doesn't work. And customers aren't the only ones who are hurt.

When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on.

I'm still experimenting.

What is not a risk with a parts-per-billion test can always be exposed to a parts-per-trillion examination. If rats cope with .the heaviest dose of a chemical that can be soaked into their food and water, you can always gavage them. Or try mice or rabbits. Again, the only stopping rule is discovery of the sought-for effect, or exhaustion of the investigator (or his funds). Many of the risk assessment procedures used today are logically indistinguishable from those used by the Inquisition.

It's possible to fund companies for $100,000 and find out rather quickly whether or not the idea they are pursuing has merit. Scientists now work much faster.

I tend to think year-by-year and tournament-by-tournament.

I like to work the count, but I know when I have to be aggressive.

Failed weapons tests are necessary components of the weapons development process.

You can never make the mistake of underestimating an opponent, especially in the Champions League.

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

I think that's kind of the perfect mix, where you do something that you're not sure about, you feel like you're taking a risk, and then you turn around and look at the artists that you're collaborating with and you can read the expression on their face if they like it or they hate it.

In 'The Apprentice,' they don't re-do shots, it's all one-take. We literally follow the decisions that the candidates make.

Of course I'm not stupid enough to think that we could take on WWE head-on and win, because they're too big of a monster.

With less and less races people will want to take more risks.

As a manager you're going to put out the player you think is going to best help you win the game.

When you do a pilot, you can't always tell what you have.

I have taken restarts and have come to the conclusion myself that I can't give NASCAR that opportunity to penalize me.

You have to say, 'We think it's going to work. Let's go with it.' Either you're going to kill the world, or you're going to fall on your rear end.

I want to prove myself and get in talks for a title shot. It's hard because people don't want to risk themselves against me.

All managers are under pressure. It's our life, always. It's about how we manage the pressure, the victory, we have to manage everything, even me - the bookmakers put me under pressure every time!