#gambler

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

There's a touch of the gambler in anybody really competitive and somebody that's willing to concede that to succeed, sometimes you need to cut corners and to make bold choices. ↗

— Josh Charles

#bold #choices #competitive #concede #corners

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers. ↗

— Marcel Carne

#gambler #gamblers #greatest #must #problem

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#gambler #gambling #i #just #market

I'm not a gambler. ↗

— Jil Sander

#i

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#business #casinos #gambler #long #long term

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

#almost #become #been #cause #delusion

I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair. ↗

— Joe Namath

#dealings #else #everybody #everybody else #fair

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#american #association #become #begins #conducted