Quotes About Gamble

No successful business was ever made without someone taking a chance, no successful person got to where they are without taking risks, and no endeavor ever succeeded without people taking a gamble.

Playing the pick four with an inadequate bankroll is worse than never playing the bet at all.

After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.

I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.

And that was exactly her gamble: that they'd accept her as the person she is now, coming back. She left here as a a naive young woman, and she has come back mature, with a life behind her, a difficult life that she's proud of. She means to do all she can to get them to accept her with her experiences of the past twenty years, with her convictions, her ideas; it'll be double or nothing: either she succeeds in being among them as the person she has become, or else she won't stay.

Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble.

She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can. —Mark Twain, Following the Equator INVESTMENT

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

Kevin Gamble was one of the first NBA players from my city.

Mr. Noble and Mr. Romney have a bet going as to who can kill the most rabbits. It all started at the rabbit drive last Monday over to Sturgis

Live long enough, and your life becomes your own to gamble with again

If it doesn't work, all we've lost is a lot of time and money." Sam laughed. "Let's do this," he said.

When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can't cover.

When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can't cover. Even if you're sure you can win, be careful that you can live with what you lose.

All life is a gamble, and every man must choose his own risks.

They don't expect to win anything, but on the other hand, they have nothing to lose.

That would require faith. I do not beliebe in faith. I believe it exists but I do not believe it works. I don't know what the rules are here; I can't risk throwing everything away on a long shot.

The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

It was one of those days when it seemed to James Bond that all life, as someone put it, was nothing but a heap of six to four against.

To be a manager, you've got to gamble. Be brave, be bold, but be humble in everything that you do, and from the kit man to the physio to your best player to your youngest player, make sure you treat everybody the same.