Ailes takes his work seriously, but he knows success doesn't go to those who blandly do what everyone else does.
"He offered me a house, a private jet and more money, but money and success doesn't come into it, " Crespo said.
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Hollywood's A-list has little trouble attracting the paparazzi and tabloids, but artistic--or monetary--success doesn't come as easy, or at least as reliably.
As it witnessed in 2009, when Mr. Borel brought the gelding Mine That Bird from dead-last to win the Kentucky Derby, Louisville knows that success doesn't come at a consistently breakneck pace.
He said he was overwhelmed by its success and doesn't realistically expect to replicate the feat.
But even with all that success, Hsieh still doesn't make money on the water.
"It doesn't guarantee success and it might take 10 to 15 years, " said the former Arsenal, Inter Milan and Manchester City midfielder.
Getting the rights to be a domain registry doesn't guarantee success.
Yet Don Cooper, the best pitching coach in baseball and arguably the key to Mr. Guillen's success on the South Side, doesn't show up until near the end of the book and then only in the context of petty office politics.
Mr. Toyoda emphasized on Wednesday that growth, however, doesn't necessarily equal success.
Though some developers still release apps in hopes that their merits alone will propel them up the app-store charts, "app launches are clearly becoming more important, and a positive launch is crucial to gaining those early users, " said Jack Kent, an analyst with research firm IHS. But Mr. Kent said the buzz around a launch doesn't determine its success.
It doesn't necessarily explain their success on the field, but it does make them somewhat rare and therefore appealing to the decision-makers at top clubs.
Now they're pulling the plug on anything that doesn't look like a sure success.
FURminator's lawyer, Steve Garlock, says the company doesn't want to discuss its patent success.
At the same time, early positive buzz doesn't always translate to box-office success.
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Although they're bright, it doesn't look like Sony had any more success than Kyocera did with the Echo in minimizing the bezel separating the two panels.
It's been sold in several European countries for a few years but so far doesn't look set to repeat Red Bull's success.
But Merck doesn't have much experience in central nervous system drugs, whose success is more difficult to judge than heart drugs like Mevacor, Prinivil and Zocor.
So, whatever the capital's success is doing for other parts of the UK, you might say that it doesn't seem to be helping them to catch up.
Despite all that, Mornhinweg insisted that Sanchez doesn't need to be "fixed" to build on the success he had in his first two seasons in 2009 and 2010 while leading the Jets to consecutive AFC title games.
Sports business analyst Drew Barrand says organizers might take a slight hit on food and drink sales if people choose to vacate the venue during England games, but doesn't expect the decision to have any major impact on the business success of the event.
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