#gamble

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You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.


James Sinegal


#educated #gamble #job #make #mistake

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.


Douglas Sirk


#films #gamble #gambler #must #produce

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

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.


Honore de Balzac


#careless #daylight #difference #gambler #his

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.


Steve Allen


#gambler #heavy #how #i #just

On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.


Vince Cable


#achieve #anger #apology #attacking #banks

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.


James Chanos


#basically #bit #business #businessmen #casinos

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.


Michael Hutchence


#courage #decided #decision #funk #gamble

Ersken gathered the dice, put them in the cup they had used for play, and tucked it inside one bound Rat's shirt. "Let that be a lesson to you not to gamble," he told the Rat soberly. "The trickster asks you pay for any luck you may have, one way or another." "Bless the boy, he's a priest with it," one of the Goddess warriors said with a grin. "After this, laddie, what's say I take you home and rub some of that off yez?" Ersken actually winked at her! "Forgive me, gracious warrior, but my woman would turn me into something unnatural if I took you up on your kind offer," he replied as if he truly regretted it. "She's a mage and I'd best stay devoted.


Tamora Pierce


#gamblers #graceful-letdown #guards #repriminding #forgiveness

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.


Steve Martin


#different #dinosaurs #evolutionary #gambled #humans