James Weldon Johnson Quotes

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

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

I've never played the game for money.

A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it.

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

I'm not a betting man.

I'm a gambler at heart. That's my life.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

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

I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.

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.

If you want to know the value of money, try and borrow some.

If I hit the lotto, I would be nowhere near the road. But I got bills to pay.

I was living in my van, playing on the street for almost two years.

I'm a gambler and love slot machines.

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.

If I go gambling the slots, some of my friends will come with me and play along with me. It's not like I'm starting out with $500 a pull or $1,000 a pull. I go in there and play $25, and if I win, I play $100s.

The more money in the game, the more players will try anything to win.

I've been broke my whole life, you get what I'm saying? I'm scared of the bank.

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