Denise Morrison Quotes

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

It's always dangerous quoting numbers and expectations.

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism.

I'm not a betting man.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

I'm not much into speculation.

No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

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

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.

Forecasting will always be somewhat of a coin toss.

You can never assume that something is going to do well.

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

If we all had crystal balls, we'd all know which horse to back, wouldn't we?

All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.

I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.