Success Ratio Quotes

In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.

When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

I have made a career of flop films. And yet, 90 percent of my films are celebrated.

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

If you hit a routine fly ball in the big leagues, you're out every time. If you hit a ground ball, you're probably out a lot of the time as well. But there's a happy medium in there, a way to swing where your misses can still lead to successes.

Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.

A better goals-to-game ratio is the aim for me now. If you score goals, you will get people talking about you.

Sometimes people are surprised to learn that most of the films I've made don't work. They've been released but nobody has ever seen them. Maybe 40 percent of them are very successful. That's a very high percentage; most people have maybe 10 or 15 percent of their films work.

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

You put some things out there. Some work, some don't, and then one really takes off, and that pays for your failures. Then you go on to the next one.

In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.

Everyone starts out desperately trying to make a hit, but some people are just more mistake-prone than others. I happened to be fairly mistake-prone. Of the 40 shows I made, I'd say ten were hits, which is a pretty good average.

You go on a million auditions anyway as an actor, and one out of a hundred, you get. It's a hard life, but you can't really think about it that way.

If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that's a very high ration.