Quotes About Gamble

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

Where there is a risk, there is a wealth.

A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.

Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.

You've got to take some chances and know when you're beat and know how to get certain advantages.

You never get poor by taking a profit. It would follow that cutting your losses is also a good idea, but investors hate to take losses, because, tax considerations aside, a loss taken is an acknowledgment of error. Loss-aversion combined with ego leads investors to gamble by clinging to their mistakes in the fond hope that some day the market will vindicate their judgment and make them whole.

The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

Investing without research is like playing stud poker and never looking at the cards. For some reason the whole business

To me, an investment is simply a gamble in which you've managed to tilt the odds in your favor.

The reward is in the risk.

A child came to Santa this morning and his mother said, "All right, Jason. Tell Santa what you want. Tell him what you want." Jason said, "I … want … Prokton and … Gamble to … stop animal testing." The mother said, "Proctor, Jason, that's Proctor and Gamble. And what do they do to animals? Do they torture animals, Jason? Is that what they do?" Jason said, Yes, they torture. He was probably six years old.

And drunk men take dares like they take breaths.

There's a small thrill in taking a chance

Oh, dey put me under arrest one day for vacancy in Bartow. When de judge found out Ah had a job of work. He took and searched me and when he found out Ah had a deck of cards on me, he charged me wid totin' concealed cards, and attempt to gamble, and gimme three months. Then dey made out another charge 'ginst me. 'Cused me of highway shufflin', and attempt to gamble. You know dese white folks sho hates tuh turn a n****r loose, if every dey git dey hands on 'im.

Man works to be wealthy, but gambles to be rich.

Once I get something going well, I'll risk fucking it up just for the action.

Yes. I was, I see now, an asshole who wanted to roll the dice.

Fate is kind to those who risk it all.

?airler f?rsatlar üzerine kurulu hayatla kumar oynamal? - ama art?k sistem pezevenkli?inden ba?ka bir ?ey yapm?yorlar -

Mr. Silver's letter was rather curt. He merely said that the one pound shares were standing at two and sixpence. The fact was, Mr. Silver was annoyed with Miss Harburn and extremely worried about his own five hundred pounds which, in a moment of madness, he had invested in Coribundas and which he could ill-afford to lose. Julia was not in the least worried, she was excited. It was thrilling, a sort of gamble—like putting money on a horse, but much safer, of course.

'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

Life is one big fat gamble, and the odds are never in your favor. So you either go for it anyway and toss the dice or you don't play. But not playing? She jabbed him in the bare chest with her finger. That's the coward's way out. And I hadn't pegged you for a coward. Figure your shit out.

Getting a second doctor's opinion is kinda like switching slot machines.