Contemporary-romance Quote by Elle Lothlorien

“It's only gambling if you're wagering something substantial. As opposed to? Information, intelligence, the profits of the mind. Greater things can be exchanged than…

— Rachel Saylor

“there is only one fundamental reason to choose to bet a hand: because it is more profitable on average than calling, checking, or folding…

— Will Tipton

“Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con tricks -…

— Nick Harkaway

“Free-market economics is an antiquated, smutty and careless box of tricks whose whimsical main flaw is clear even to a child. Still look how…

— Dbc Pierre

“The problem is that the choice we make in the market don't fully reflect our values as citizens. We might make different choices if…

— Robert B. Reich

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

— Rita Mae Brown

“people gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and…

— Neil Gaiman

“For why is gambling a whit worse than any other method of acquiring money? How, for instance, is it worse than trade? True, out…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves”

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what they are…

— John Cage

“Time to cash in your chips put your ideas and beliefs on the table. See who has the bigger hand you or the Mystery…

— Adyashanti

“Even when the underlying motive of purchase is mere speculative greed, human nature desires to conceal this unlovely impulse behind a screen of apparent…

— Benjamin Graham