#gamble

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment. ↗

— Max von Sydow

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Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed. ↗

— Benjamin Graham

#common #consequence #directions #excessive #fear

It's a gamble. A band like Kiss, a lot of those are our audience but we don't do as much make-up. Alice would have more to lose if we got back together. ↗

— Michael Owen Bruce

#audience #back #band #gamble #got

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#arms #believe #car #crashes #day

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

#analyze #betting #each #gambler #like

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. ↗

— Charles Mackay

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I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk. ↗

— Edmund H. North

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cannot #come #exists #faith #false

One always has to be willing to lose to be able to win... in battle and in life. I wonder. Are you willing to lose, Rayla? ↗

— Christie Rich

#life #lose #loss #win #life