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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

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

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.


Paul Thomas Anderson


#audience #better #confuse #five #gamble

But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.


Craig Benson


#because #create #disappear #does #gamble

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

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.


Daniel Inouye


#bring #citizens #contributions #dividends #face

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.


Alex Trebek


#dollars #gamble #give #give me #great

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.


Joanna Russ


#contrary #faith #gambler #ideas #like