Temptation glitters...
This compilation contains some of the best quotes we could find related to gambling, luck and money.
Since humans have existed they have gambled away their fortunes, and it is probably the fate of man to continue gambling so long as there is anything left to bet on…
Gambling and Luck Quotations
These quotations are sorted chronologically and appear quite representative of gambling as it has developed over the last 2,000 years or more…
Luck is what happens
when preparation meets opportunity.
Quit while you’re ahead.
All the best gamblers do.
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By gaming we lose both
our time and treasure:
two things most precious
to the life of man.
If you would be wealthy,
think of saving
as well as getting.
I’m a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work
the more I have of it.
If you must play,
decide upon three things at the start:
the rules of the game,
the stakes,
and the quitting time.
The only sure thing about luck is
that it will change.
True luck consists not
in holding the best
of the cards at the table;
luckiest is
he who knows
just when to rise and go home.
The gambling known as business
looks with austere disfavor
upon the business known as gambling.
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When I was young,
people called me a gambler.
As the scale of my operations increased
I became known as a speculator.
Now I am called a banker.
But I have been doing
the same thing all the time.
Whenever a man does
a thoroughly stupid thing,
it is always from the noblest motives.
It is better
to have a permanent income
than to be fascinating.
The roulette table pays nobody
except him that keeps it.
Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common,
though a passion
for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
In gambling the many must lose
in order
that the few may win.
The only man who makes money
following the races
is the one
who does it with a broom and shovel.
Luck, bad if not good,
will always be with us.
But it has a way of favoring the intelligent
and showing its back to the stupid.
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The safest way
to double your money is
to fold it over once
and put it in your pocket.
Gambling:
The sure way of getting nothing from something.
Remember this:
The house doesn’t beat the player.
It just gives him the opportunity
to beat himself.
The urge to gamble
is so universal
and its practice so pleasurable,
that I assume it must be evil.
You don’t gamble to win.
You gamble so you can
gamble the next day.
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One of the worst things
that can happen to you in life
is to win a bet on a horse
at an early age.
A race track is a place
where windows clean people.
My advice to the unborn is,
don’t be born with a gambling instinct
unless you have a good sense of probabilities.
Gambling is a way
of buying hope on credit.
The guy who invented poker was bright,
but the guy who invented the chip
was a genius.
Gambling has brought our family together.
We had to move to a smaller house.
A dollar won is twice as sweet
as a dollar earned…
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Horse racing is animated roulette.
A man’s gotta make
at least one bet a day
else he could be walking around lucky
and never know it.
In most betting shops you will see
three windows marked \”Bet Here\”,
but only one window with the legend \”Pay Out\”.
Show me a wealthy gambler
and I’ll show you someone
who has made his money
from something other than gambling.
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A gambler never
makes the same mistake twice.
It’s usually three or more times.
A gambler plays even
when the odds are
immutable and against him.
In the casino,
the cardinal rule is
to keep them playing
and to keep them coming back.
The longer they play,
the more they lose,
and in the end, we get it all…
The reality is, in order to become a billionaire,
the one thing you have to have is luck.
Any billionaire who says they could do it again is lying.
You’ll always miss 100% of the shots
you don’t take.
One of the healthiest ways to gamble
is with a spade
and a package of garden seeds.
If there weren’t luck involved,
I’d win every time.
I love blackjack.
But I’m not addicted to gambling.
I’m addicted to sitting in a semi circle.
Last year people won
more than one billion dollars playing poker.
And casinos made twenty-seven billion
just by being around those people.
Gambling is the future on the internet.
You can only look
at so many dirty pictures.
It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket
as long as you control what happens to that basket.
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If you can’t pull a $100 bill out of your pocket and set it on fire,
I don’t think you can play poker for a living.
There is a very easy way
to return from a casino
with a small fortune:
go there with a large one.
Guessing has never
been widely acclaimed
as a good gambling strategy.
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Luck always seems to be
against the man who depends on it.
Lottery:
A tax on people
who are bad at math.
The best throw of the dice is
to throw them away.
Gambling is the son of avarice
and the father of despair.
Luck sometimes visits a fool,
but it never sits down with him.
Eat your betting money
but don’t bet your eating money.
Every dog has his day in luck.
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Nine gamblers
could not feed a single rooster.
About the Author
This is probably the best compilation of gambling quotes that I’ve seen, great job!
Great quotes, all of them are inspiring and real. People must really know when to quit. Thanks.
The excitement that a gambler feels when making a bet is equal to the amount he might win times the probability of winning it. (Blaise Pascal)
Don’t bet your eating money, that will save your life if you listen to it.
Heads they win; tails we lose!
I know of people who believe that winning is everything and that they have failed in a sense, if they do not win. Winning and losing are not mutually exclusive.
Even if one should ‘lose’ there is so much that they could have ‘won’.
If one’s perspective is grounded in respecting the journey then so much can be learnt from a loss. Winning and losing are not mutually exclusive and should not be perceived to be so.
Quality reading. Thanks!
There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them.
quoting Victor Niederhoffer
No. The quickest route to failure is fear of trying.
Is it like concentrating on weakness and ignoring the strengths????
If you believe that what you focus on you’ll get more of – you may be attracting more disaster.
The first rule of avoiding disaster – don’t focus on mastering disaster. You may find yourself up to your butt in aligators for a long time!
Put your focus more on enjoying the journey and less on crossing the finish line. The only winner when you don’t is your Ego.