Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

Nothing is guaranteed.

Hollywood is a casino. You have to put your chips on the table and hope for the best.

Nothing is ever certain.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

Never bet on baseball.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

I'm not a betting man.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isn't it?

Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.

I have come to regard the courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

Technology is like the ante in a poker game. It is the price you pay to play the game. But it doesn't mean you are going to win.

I've always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the chaos of the world. Our sudden reversals, our freak streaks of fortune. The belief that the next hand can save you, and the inevitable failure of the next hand to save you. I think that describes my world view pretty well.

I don't even pay attention to the odds, to be honest with you.

Being an entrepreneur is all about risk. Being an entrepreneur is like going to Vegas every day and shoving all of your chips into the middle of the table every single day.

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.

Nothing is a guarantee at all.

Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either blindly hope for the best, delude yourself into thinking you've worked out a system, or open it up when no one's looking and rig the settings so it'll pay out illegally.

I'm a betting man. I like to gamble everywhere, everything I do.