Top 149 Bets Quotes & Sayings

Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

When the ground starts moving, all bets are off.

Even though I'm used to losing bets every day, I am not calm when I sweat a game.

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

I know there are no sure bets or overnight miracles.

In poker, you've got to start at the bottom level and work your way up. This advice applies to the limits that you play and the sizing of the bets that you make.

When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.

In my world, even sure bets are not certain; 'Cause you'll get the picture, then find out it's the cropped version.

Bets lengthen putts and shorten drives.

I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make, think, assume, and believe are yesterday’s news.

Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?

Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.

In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.

The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.

The one who bets the most wins. Cards just break ties.

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.

I have no intention of making small bets.

The one thing that I think separates Microsoft from a lot of other people is we make bold bets. We're persistent about them, but we make them. A lot of people won't make a bold bet. A bold bet doesn't assure you of winning, but if you make no bold bets you can't continue to succeed. Our industry doesn't allow you to rest on your laurels forever. I mean, you can milk any great idea. Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.

I'm not making any bets on the future.

He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

'Profit' in my mind is as good as television gets, and if that didn't make it, all bets are off on really predicting what's going to work and what's not.

People are going to hire you, or they're not, and there's only so much you can do to hedge your bets.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

I guarantee you 80 percent of this country will stop watching cricket if they did not bet on a match. Every single person bets I am sorry to say.

In 21st-century storytelling all bets are off: anybody can do anything. We're all storytellers.

I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off.

Plan B is if Hillary [Clinton] is indicted. Then, even if I missed the deadlines for the first couple of primaries, I'll be there to rescue the party. All bets are off.

Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

Where I come from, no one settled their disagreements with bets, because no one of us had any money to bet.

Samuelson, however, hedged his personal bets - by putting some of his own money in Berkshire Hathaway.

My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

I'm committed to England, simple as that. I don't need to hedge my bets in keeping doors open or keeping things alive.

The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.

There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong. If a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the losses are cut; if he bets wrong, he loses; if the gov bets wrong, they just get bigger, they just appropriate more money. It's a bottomless pit, because they either get it from the tax payers or run it off a printing press.

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me

I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.

The first thing I learned is when times are tough, you need to hedge your bets - you need to diversify.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.

True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

Place bets on your dreams and be your own hero!

There are just four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose. Winning a bad bet can be the most dangerous outcome of all, because a success of that kind can encourage you to take more bad bets in the future, when the odds will be running against you. You can also lose a good bet no matter how sound the underlying proposition, but if you keep placing good bets, over time, the law of averages will be working for you.

I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.

At Amazon, we are very careful about what big strategic bets we place, but the ones we make, we keep iterating until we find something that we think has resonance with customers.

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction.