Joey Adams Quotes

I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

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

Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.

Markets love volatility.

If we consider games of chance immoral, then every pursuit of human industry is immoral; for there is not a single one that is not subject to chance, not one wherein you do not risk a loss for the chance of some gain... In all these pursuits, you take some one thing against another which you hope to win... These, then, are games of chance. Yet so far from being immoral, they are indispensable to the existence of man, and every one has a natural right to choose for his pursuit such one of them as he thinks most likely to furnish him subsistence.

… there is little rhyme or reason to the going up or coming down of the [Stock] Market

I like to bet on as close to a sure thing as you can find.

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

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.

I believe - deeply and profoundly - that speculation is a loser's game.

I don't particularly like equities, but I think equities are a better space to be in than bonds.

I'm not a betting man.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability.

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

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

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.

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.

The stock market is the world’s largest Oujie Board.

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.

As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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