143 Quotes About Betting

  • Author Henry Petroski
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    Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

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  • Author J. B. Pritzker
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    I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

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  • Author Barbara Ryan
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    Lilly has been more innovative than most other companies but done worse at execution. There's betting on a pipeline that hasn't panned out in the past.

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  • Author Jacques Rogge
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    It's an international problem, it's not just the NHL. There is a lot of betting where there is an influence on sports results. There have been issues on betting on football (soccer), there have been issues of betting in tennis, there might be issues in other sports.

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  • Author Li Rong
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    Given such high copper prices, no traders dare to put on short positions, and that's why volume reduced. Some traders pulled investments from copper into aluminum, betting gains in aluminum might be bigger.

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  • Author Robert Routh
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    The sellers are doing just fine because the money is in their pockets, but at the end of the day, the buyers are betting on the future, and there is no way to know how they will make out.

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  • Author Brendan Shanahan
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    I haven't heard anything about the betting being on hockey, and that's a very important distinction. It sounds as if it's college football and Super Bowl betting, stuff like that.

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