Quotes About Gamble

I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

The manner in which we gamble defines the stakes. Win or lose, it shall be absolute.' The

I, Sergeant Gesler of the 5th squad in the 9th Company of the 8th Legion, swear by the two Lords of Summer, Fener and Treach, that the creature before me is a natural, unaltered Birdshit scorpion – even though I know there's something about it I'm not seeing and I'm about to lose my life's savings on the Sergeants' Wager.

Norton Simon had lots of money and believed that the $2 million investment to launch a Halston perfume was more than worth the gamble. 'Of course, it wasn't my two million,' Halston said. 'It was just my name, which is worth a hell of a lot more than two million.

At the time, casting Trump as host was seen as a huge gamble. He had been labeled a "D-lister"—someone who lost all his money, a clownlike figure who couldn't be taken seriously. Supervising editor of The Apprentice Jonathon Braun told the New Yorker, "We knew Trump was a fake… but we made him out to be the most important person in the world, making the court jester the king.

Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

When you put your whole heart in something you risk just that. Your whole heart. It's a high roller's type of gamble. I can tell by your letters that you love with your whole heart.

Love' Two perfectly happy people ready to gamble

When a coin is minted, the devil kisses it.

We all have to gamble with our lives in here, we don't get a choice about that; the trick is figuring out when it's worth taking a bet.

Kolo sre?e po?elo se okretati, ali ovaj put on nije bacio kockice.

Often, it is precisely the lure of a chance to hit the jackpot which causes all the producers to gamble on untried ventures, out of which some prove to be beneficial to the public. To insist on a closer approximation to merit would reduce the incentives and the benefits to society that flow from these incentives.

He grinned. "Madam, I was not willing to gamble with so precious a prize." -Christopher

Monte Carlo was the place to gamble, gossip and sunbathe, exchange an old lover for a newer one, and acquire next season's fashion statement a full three months before the rest of Paris.

You never know your luck till the wheel stops.

Well, you know what they say about traps."       "Be sure the reward is worth the risk?"       "Aye.

Tempt fate. See what happens.

If you can't out-experiment and beat your competitors in time to market and agility, you are sunk. Features are always a gamble. If you're lucky, ten percent will get the desired benefits. So the faster you can get those features to market and test them, the better off you'll be. Incidentally, you also pay back the business faster for the use of capital, which means the business starts making money faster, too.

What a queer gamble our existence is. We decide to do A instead of B and then the two roads diverge utterly and may lead in the end to heaven and to hell. Only later one sees how much and how awfully the fates differ. Yet what were the reasons for the choice? They may have been forgotten. Did one know what one was choosing? Certainly not.

After all, the essential point in running a risk is that the returns justify it.

You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don't open fire on you.

You don't know what pressure is until you play for $5 with only $2 in your pocket.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.