Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. Just don't reload the gun.

If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

I love online gambling.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

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

I've been gambling since the age of 12. Horses, dogs, dice, roulette, you name it.

I see these college kids taking these crazy shots, and it's like, taking that shot is going to leave you without a job. You're not Steph Curry.

I make bad decisions frequently. They're fun.

I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.

It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

The lottery is a tax on stupid people.

I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.

I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

I was always one step behind Marilyn. She made all the right moves, hung out with the right people who could advance her career. I was just the opposite. I was always breaking dates with moguls and running off with guys younger than myself.

I know what winning and losing is when you gamble.

Gamble until you die. I do not really care.

I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca.

I'm not a big gambler anymore. I like to do it. I enjoy it instead of trying to make money off of it, because I realized you can't make money gambling.

I hate casinos. I have zero interest in gambling.

I went broke after sophomore year, gambled away all my money, sold some guns, turned $750 into $10,000, flew to Vegas, turned ten thou into $187,000.

In the basketball world, guys like me, we tend to make bad decisions.