Top 100 Quotes About Bets
#1. It's for sure that nobody wants to be played from somebody out son logically bets are something from paradox world.
Paradox is now the comming future, so get prepared.
Deyth Banger
#2. Samuelson, however, hedged his personal bets - by putting some of his own money in Berkshire Hathaway.
William Poundstone
#3. In my world, even sure bets are not certain;
'Cause you'll get the picture, then find out it's the cropped version.
Joe Budden
#4. When globalization collides with domestic politics, the smart money bets on politics.
Dani Rodrik
#5. Some business bets in which one wins big but infrequently, yet loses small but frequently, are worth making if others are suckers for them and if you have the personal and intellectual stamina.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#6. I can't tell you how it came to take me so many years to learn that instead of placing piking bets on what the next few quotations were going to be, my game was to anticipate what was going to happen in a big way.
Anonymous
#7. This was yet another consequence of turning Wall Street partnerships into public corporations: It turned them into objects of speculation. It was no longer the social and economic relevance of a bank that rendered it too big to fail, but the number of side bets that had been made upon it.
Michael Lewis
#9. Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction.
George Soros
#10. What if you quit making excuses, quit playing it safe, and quit hedging your bets?
Mark Batterson
#11. For most people, blood is still thicker than water, but I guess all bets are off when you put money in the mix.
Lisa Henry
#12. My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock, rocks, uranium. Peter and John were two of the twelve apostles - arguable the two most significant. Were my parents hedging their bets?
Peter Greenaway
#13. You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.
Roger Martin
#14. The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor
not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.
Bill Gross
#15. Would you like to make a wager on that, Abby Abernathy?" he smiled, his eyes animated. I smiled.
"I'll take that bet. I think he'll get one in on you.
Jamie McGuire
#16. As a rule, she ate fairly healthily but all bets were off during times of stress. Proving the point, she'd just polished off an entire bag of pizza rolls by herself and was covered in crumbs and questioning her choices in life.
Jill Shalvis
#17. The one who bets the most wins. Cards just break ties.
Sam Farha
#18. Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#19. Nice is akin to not walking under ladders or stepping on cracks. It's a superstitious hedging of bets. A part of you thinks your good behavior will ward off evil. Well, apparently that's not true.
Deb Caletti
#20. People feel like if they don't have a voice or a name or the spotlight, then they're invisible. But if you can't wake up in your world, in your life, with your family and your friends, and enjoy it, then forget it. All bets are off, because that's all anybody is guaranteed.
Sandra Bernhard
#21. Successful gamblers - and successful forecasters of any kind - do not think of the future in terms of no-lose bets, unimpeachable theories, and infinitely precise measurements. These are the illusions of the sucker, the sirens of his overconfidence.
Nate Silver
#22. True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk.
Will Evans
#23. Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.
Deb Caletti
#24. I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.
Evan Williams
#25. I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#26. Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.
John Dryden
#27. If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.
Dick Costolo
#28. They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.
Chuck Palahniuk
#29. I've been trying to watch my weight a bit, but when I come to Las Vegas, all bets are off. I get enough healthy food in L.A. where the food is the size of a quarter and costs $40 - when I'm in Vegas, I want a steak!
Billy Gardell
#30. Don't hedge bets with your life, Kaladin, Durk had always said. Don't put in a chip when you have a pocket full of marks. Bet them all or leave the table.
Brandon Sanderson
#31. They were combing the markets for bets whose true odds were 10:1, priced as if the odds were 100:1.
Michael Lewis
#32. Is it better to go indie and make bigger profits on each book, or stick with a print publisher's 6%-10% royalties? Since I never could figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up, I'm hedging my bets and working both sides of the street.
Ruth Glick
#33. What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.
Tim Schafer
#34. Kali has a habit of doing these beautiful works that never translate during the races in the afternoon. They call animals like her morning glories, or horrendous bets. Take your pick.
Mara Dabrishus
#35. It was a problem that needed squaring away and I squared it away for them. By now it seemed like it was something I was doing all my life. If you count my father sending me out to beat up other boys so he could win beer bets, maybe it was. Evidently
Charles Brandt
#36. This election isn't about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. It's about you. The other guys write $10 million checks and make $10,000 bets. But we've bet this campaign on you.
Jim Messina
#37. All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me
Nipsey Hussle
#38. The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules.
Ed Seykota
#39. She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along. Directly above her head, blood peppered
Tanya Anne Crosby
#40. Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I've pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.
Larry Page
#41. We must cultivate our garden.
Furia to God one day in seven allots;
The other six to scandal she devotes.
Satan, by false devotion never flammed,
Bets six to one, that Furia will be damned.
Horace Walpole
#42. Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.
Dan Harmon
#43. This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.
Mark Zuckerberg
#44. It's one thing for my parents to behave all secular humanist and gamble with their own eternal souls; however it's altogether not all right that they also gambled with mine: They placed their bets with such self-rightous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.
Chuck Palahniuk
#45. I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)
Matthew Specktor
#46. If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.
Luigina Sgarro
#47. But the U.S. government bets its last penny on violence as the magic solution for every problem, and so the country is losing friends every day and doesn't seem to give a damn about it.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#48. Edward: I don't know whether to put my fingers in my ears and go la-la-la or find more of your guards so we can take bets.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#49. The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off.
Hod Lipson
#50. I once overheard someone telling someone else "Don't confuse kindness with something else." Even though this was not directed at me, I took heed and never hedged my bets.
Shawn Michael Severud
#52. The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.
Graham T. Allison
#53. In my psychology class, I learned that bettors are more confident about the horses they pick after they place their bets.
Will McIntosh
#54. I'm the same way," Lana admitted. "I keep picking guys who are bad bets because they do what I expect them to screw me over. That way, It's never my fault when the relationship fails.
Jen Frederick
#55. Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make, think, assume, and believe are yesterday's news.
Jon Rappoport
#56. A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#57. Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.
Jeremy Stoppelman
#58. Bets lengthen putts and shorten drives.
Henry Beard
#59. Donald Trump just pledged to be loyal to the Green Party, the Communist Party and Party Central, as long as they agree to be nice to that thing on his head. If not, all bets are off.
Michael R. Burch
#60. Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the time to scale back the scope of our ambition or the scale of our investment. While our opportunities are greater than ever, we also face new competitors, faster-moving markets and new customer demands.
Steve Ballmer
#61. I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.
Judd Apatow
#62. He does not depend on insider tips, crooked referees, or other sorts of hustles to make his bets. Nor does he have a "system" of any kind. He uses computer simulations, but does not rely upon them exclusively.
Nate Silver
#63. Plan B is if Hillary [Clinton] is indicted. Then, even if I missed the deadlines for the first couple of primaries, I'll be there to rescue the party. All bets are off.
Joe Biden
#64. Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
Dick Wolf
#65. Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules.
Martha Beck
#66. Till our next date?"
"Oh, yeah," he says, making a "well, duh" face. "All bets are off on our next date.
Kelley R. Martin
#67. Basic economic theory. People behave differently based on how much they think something's worth. Because everyone got their chips for free, people made huge bets on every hand - no matter what they were holding. People who play with everything on the line - for real - don't act like that.
Elle Lothlorien
#68. Yes, stop playing, Kestrel, she told herself. Clear the bets, clear the table. Walk away from the game. Now.
Marie Rutkoski
#69. I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're safe bets; if they've been around for 2,000 years, there's a reason. It's often a title or just a phrase within the text that will compel me to adapt it.
Mary Zimmerman
#70. Who said death is dead? He's fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better off place.
Anthony Liccione
#71. In investing, we intuitively think we should make a number of small bets. A blockbuster strategy is the opposite. It means making fewer huge investments. But it turns out to be safer.
Anita Elberse
#72. Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.
Murray Gell-Mann
#73. We've invested in Newark's children, the schools and teachers, and these are long-term bets that need a number of years to really pan out. We've seen and learned how important it is to listen to the community and really get a sense of what they need and want. And it's a long journey.
Priscilla Chan
#74. Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none ... so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,
Arnold Rothstein
#75. On a really big budget movie you do chemistry reads, and you sort of hedge your bets a little bit more and make sure that these people get along. But on the low budget side of things, I have to trust my gut that when I cast these people, the various elements are going to play together.
Joe Swanberg
#76. You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.
China Mieville
#77. [Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.
Marco Rubio
#78. In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.
Robert Reich
#79. When you understand what's involved in winning, as do professional gamblers, you'll tend to bet more during a winning streak and less during a losing streak. However, the average person does exactly the opposite: he or she bets more after a series of losses and less after a series of wins.
Van K. Tharp
#80. Charlie Ledley and Jamie Mai, whose entire investment strategy was based on FUD: they placed bets that had limited downside, but would pay off handsomely if dramatic but unexpected changes occurred in the market.
Susan Cain
#81. If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?
Richard Rorty
#82. Mom had always taught all of us to examine decisions by reversibility
that is, to hedge our bets. When you couldn't decide between two things, she suggested you choose the one that allowed you to change course if necessary. Not the road less traveled but the road with the exit ramp.
Will Schwalbe
#83. The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
Anne Rice
#84. I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.
Rob Corddry
#85. The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.
Ray Dalio
#86. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
Gary North
#87. Place bets on your dreams and be your own hero!
Joel Brown
#88. I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.
Hank Azaria
#89. I like bets... my favourite ones are those in which food plays big role.
Deyth Banger
#90. In an existence like mine forecasts could not be made: I never know what could happen to me in the next half hour, I can't imagine a life all made up of minimal alternatives, carefully circumscribed, on which bets can be made: either this or that.
Italo Calvino
#91. But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.
Charles Darwin
#92. Just days after Mitt Romney suggested he might run for president, there's been a backlash. The backlash is led by Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, and just to hedge his bets on every issue, Mitt Romney.
Conan O'Brien
#93. I guess you always regret the choices you didn't make, because you imagine that they would have been better choices, that's the thing. But in the end, you just have to choose something and get on with it. Because if you hedge your bets forever, well, you end up with nothing, don't you?
Nick Alexander
#94. I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.
Wilson Mizner
#95. Not so long ago, companies that borrowed lots of money were considered risky, appropriate only for daredevil stock pickers. Those with lots of cash on hand and few outstanding debts might be dull stocks, but they were at least safe bets for bondholders.
Charles Duhigg
#96. When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.
Desi Arnaz
#97. Oh, Raffe versus Godzilla. Now that's a fight I'd love to take bets on, says Dum.
Susan Ee
#98. Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
Tom Peters
#99. And when he did, all bets were off, but it took a lot of pushing to get him off the ground. But
Nora Roberts
#100. He sees her standing at the end of a passage in her life, without any next step to take - all her bets are in, she has only the tedium now of being knocked from one room to the next, a sequence of numbered rooms whose numbers do not matter, till inertia brings her to the last. That's all.
Thomas Pynchon