Quotes About Gamble

Don't lose what you had to get something which just may not work.

But fate was a myth constructed by fools—people who gamble or follow horoscopes, who believe the stars rule their lives.

Perdido por perdido, bien jodido, el polvo más costoso de mi vida, se dijo. Se espantó de su propio chiste. Soy un monstruo, súbitamente un monstruo. La culpa había sido de la luna. Demasiado caliente, la luna del Chaco. Sobre todo, después de ocho años de ausencia. Perdido por perdido. Estaba jugado.

risks therein must be assumed by someone. * There is intelligent speculation as there is intelligent investing. But there are many ways in which speculation may be unintelligent. Of these the foremost are: (1) speculating when you think you are investing; (2) speculating seriously instead of as a pastime, when you lack proper knowledge and skill for it; and (3) risking more money in speculation than you can afford to lose.

To gain everything, a man must risk everything.

The tale of Enron is a story of human weakness, of hubris and greed and rampant self-delusion; of ambition run amok; of a grand experiment in the deregulated world; of a business model that didn't work; and of smart people who believed their next gamble would cover their last disaster—and who couldn't admit they were wrong.

There's more luck in poker. Getting good at golf requires a certain amount of physical aptitude. Both take a lot of patience. Both require knowing when to gamble - either with a big bluff or a high-risk shot. Both can be infuriating.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

Penalties are like the lottery and you miss them when luck is not on your side.

Deliberately modifying the earth's atmosphere would be a desperate gamble with significant risks. Yet the more likely climate change is to cause devastation, the more attractive even the most perilous attempts to mitigate those changes will become.

Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

It's fun to horse around with danger.

Never venture, never win!

I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Porque la suerte no depende de ti, sino del azar.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

It was a big gamble to come to WWE, and it was a big gamble to come to NXT. Honestly, the gamble paid off.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

His game is baccarat. Far as anyone knows he plays clean. He's just good at it. Spends

It was a long shot but Ballard knew that long shots never paid off if you didn't take them.

Before Volcker's speech, bonds had been conservative investments, into which investors put their savings when they didn't fancy a gamble in the stock market. After Volcker's speech, bonds became objects of speculation, a means of creating wealth rather than merely storing it.