Betting Quotes - Page 2

• Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

  George Soros

  Investing, Unexpected, Financial

  "Great Money Minds" by Chris Stallman at TeenAnalyst.com, May 5, 2005.

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• Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Trying, Actresses, Lost

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). "El éxtasis y yo: mi vida como mujer".

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• To us, investing is the equivalent of going out and betting against the pari-mutuel system. We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning, and that pays three to one. In other words, we're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is, and you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Winning, Two

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• I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

  Edward Burns

  Iphone, Talking, Years

  FaceBook post by Edward Burns from Apr 29, 2012

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• I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.

  Conan O'Brien

  Exhilarating Feeling, Feelings, World

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• I'm not a betting man.

  Kelly Jones

  Hombres

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• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

  Samuel Butler

  Atheism, Kind, Should

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). "The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883", Univ Pr of Amer

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• The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

  James Surowiecki

  Sports, Criminals, Doe

  "A ‘Grown-Up Discussion’ About Sports Betting". fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.

  Clemente Freud

  Gambling, Guides, Shops

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• I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

  Elisabeth Rohm

  Chica, Pensar, Dar

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• I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

  Blanche Lincoln

  People, Persons

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• No soy una mujer de apuestas, pero tengo $50 en Secretariat con un viejo director amigo mío.

  Shirley Booth

  Directors, Mines

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• Todos los deportes profesionales, así como la NCAA, deberían dar gracias a Dios cada día que tenemos apuestas deportivas aquí... Tenemos la única agencia en el mundo que regula la honestidad de los juegos.

  Meyer Lansky

  Sports, Honesty, Agency

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

  H. L. Mencken

  Jesus, Odds, America

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• Ahora bien, la fe es convertir los sueños en hechos. Es apostar tu vida a las realidades invisibles.

  Clarence Jordan

  Dream, Reality, Unseen

  Clarence Jordan (2004). “Cotton Patch Gospel: Hebrews and the General Epistles”, p.9, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

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• Worrying is betting against yourself.

  Terence McKenna

  Preocúpese

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• We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Divorce, Loss, Debt

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• Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.

  Nick Dandolos

  Divertido, Dinero, Humor

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• In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?

  Alan Lightman

  Science, Cosmos, World

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.29, Vintage

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• Betting stimulates the caring glands. That is where there is so much caring at the racetrack.

  Larry Merchant

  Caring, Gambling, Glands

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• Sitting and watching a game show, or betting on your lucky numbers is not the price that most of the top 1% paid to become rich

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Numbers, Games, Lucky

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• Los peligros, las recompensas, los castigos y las realizaciones de una aventura deben ser reales, o la aventura no es más que una pesadilla cambiante y despiadada. Si apuesto, debo pagar, o no hay poesía en las apuestas. Si desafío, debo luchar, o no hay poesía en el desafío. Si juro ser fiel, debo ser maldecido cuando soy infiel, o no tiene gracia jurar.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Real, Adventure

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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• When you talk about locker room betting, we bet on everything... It's no different than anyone else's office pool. Money changes hands in the locker room; it's whatever you want.

  Albert Belle

  Hands, Office, Different

  Albert Belle (1998). “Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle”, p.21, ECW Press

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• Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Mistake, Made, Strategic

  "HTML5 v native apps: key considerations for your mobile strategy" by Michael Berliner, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2013.

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