Quotes About Gamble

Patch leaned back against the booth and arched his eyebrows at me. The gesture said it all: Pay up."You got lucky, " I

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

Chaplin you got to go with. Chaplin is a man whose talents is such that you have to gamble. First off, comedy is his backyard. He's a genius, a cinematic genius. A comedic talent without peer.

The legend that matrimony is a lottery has almost ruined the lottery business

Life is a gamble, but if your happy, you will always come out on top

Sometimes you have to risk something to get something out of something.

It's all a bit of a gamble, mate. That's all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don't take chances.

He who does not venture has no luck.

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

If you don't take risks, there's no room for luck. I took a chance. I got lucky.

The main issue is that putting yourself in a position to enjoy good luck also puts you in a position to lose.

Cause he got everything to lose.

Behavioural economists have demonstrated experimentally that in order to get someone to take a gamble or to risk an investment, the potential pay-off must be about twice the potential loss. To get a person to toss a coin to win or lose $10 (students), or $10,000 (wealthy executives), the pay-off has to be greater than or equal to $20, or $20,000.

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.

Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

Risk taking is the game of dice, which is always unpredictable and full of probabilities.

Wybór, — mówimy sobie, — mamy wybór. Tak gÅ'upi potrafiÄ… by? tylko Å›miertelnicy. To tylko loteria — zabawa losu. —Adina Mercant, poeta (ur. 1832, zm. 1901)

Constantine, it must be remembered, was not a well-educated man. In his anxiety before the battle of the Milvian Bridge he actually thought he could strike a bargain with God. This gamble on Christianity apparently led to his victory

People who had children assuming they were creating future friends were rolling the dice.

We play very dangerous games with life and no one knows our rules.

As Procter & Gamble's Chief Marketing Officer has said, "Marketing is a $450 billion industry, and we are making decisions with less data and discipline than we apply to $100,000 decisions in other aspects of our business.

Y un juego vil que no hay que jugarlo a ciegas, pues juegas cien veces, mil, y de las mil, ves febril que o te pasas o no llegas. Y el no llegar da dolor, pues indica que mal tasas y eres del otro deudor. Mas ¡ay de ti si te pasas! ¡Si te pasas es peor!

The fish might well have disappeared already, but Brody wasn't willing to gamble lives on the possibility: the odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high.