Gambling Quotes

Don’t ever average losers. Decrease your trading volume when you are trading poorly; increase your volume when you are trading well. Never trade in situations where you don’t have control. For example, I don’t risk significant amounts of money in front of key reports, since that is gambling, not trading.

We're playing strip billiards.

The Devil invented gambling.

Lotteries are a tax on ignorance

Lotteries are a tax on the poor.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate [on the Stock Market]: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

Lottery men do also tax themselves in the general, though out of hopes of Advantage in particular: A Lottery therefore is properly a Tax upon unfortunate self-conceited fools; men that have good opinion of their own luckiness, or that have believed some Fortune-teller or Astrologer, who had promised them great success about the time and place of the Lottery …. Now because the world abounds with this kinde of fools, it is not fit that every man that will may cheat every man that would be cheated; but it is rather ordained, that the Sovereign should have the Guardianship of these fools, or that some Favourite should beg the Sovereigns right of taking advantage of such men’s folly, even as in the case of Lunaticks and Idiots.

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

The only way to win in a casino is to own one….No, I’ve never known anyone to have made money paying at a Casino over a period of time.

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

When I bet on horses, I never lose. Why? I bet on all the horses.

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

I know a guy--a gambler who bets on politics. He made so much money betting on the Democrats that he became a Rep ublican.

Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.

The punters [gamblers] know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

The [political] parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.

Monopoly is unlawful in Islam.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Does the logic connect? What are the range of probably outcomes? You want to figure out what those probabilities are and ideally be the House. It's fine to gamble, as long as you're the House. Also, listen to critical feedback, particularly from friends. Generally they will be thinking it but they won't tell you.

You should do what we do, stack chips like Hebrews.