Dumas’s Law
Nothing succeeds like success.
Source: Alexandre Dumas pere Ange Pitou 1854.
Wilde’s Amendment
Nothing succeeds like excess (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance 1893).
Hollywood’s Iron Law
Nothing succeeds like failure (Sidney Zion, New York, January 24th 1977).
Zion introduced this law in an effort to explain why a Hollywood genius, after losing millions of dollars on a film, is not canned along with the film but given a fancier office, a better title and more money to spend. In accordance with the law - “Only after nine straight flops was he eligible to become head of a studio.”
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