Bets Quotes

“Right, you see that girl over there, the one in that group that keeps looking right at you?'...'Right, let's say I'm convinced she's wearing black knickers - she looks like a black knickers kind of gal to me - and I'm so sure that's what she's wearing, so positive of that sartorial fact, I want to bet a million dollars on it. The trouble is, if I'm wrong, I'm wiped out. So I also bet she's wearing knickers that aren't black, but are any one of a whole basket of colours - let's say I put nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars on that possibility: that's the rest of the market; that's the hedge. This is a crude example, okay, in every sense, but hear me out. Now if I'm right, I make fifty K, but even if I'm wrong I'm going to lose fifty K, because I'm hedged. And because ninety-five per cent of my million dollars is not in use - I'm never going to be called on to show it: the only risk is in the spread - I can make similar bets with other people. Or I can bet it on something else entirely. And the beauty of it is I don't have to be right all the time - if I can just get the colour of her underwear right fifty-five per cent of the time I'm going to wind up very rich...”

“A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet.”

“Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events”

“Perhaps your notion of relationships is different than mine.You want something that would be a long term safe bet. I don't believe in that. I don't believe in eternity or safe bets. I believe in the unavoidable now and that the unavoidable now in the condition that it is pure with the best intention is eternity in itself.I want to love you and to feel your love as much as this is possible, as far as this takes us, and I hope it will take us far.”

“I'm agnostic," I told him. "I'd be an atheist, except I believe in hedging my bets.”

“Whenever a woman gets pregnant, she literally bets with her life.”

“They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.”

“If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.”

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

“Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.”