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

If you don’t take a chance, someone else will give you his luck. And if you get bad luck, then you need to take another chance to turn things from bad to good.

Even if you know what you are doing, things go wrong. Things go wrong because building a multifaceted human organization to compete and win in a dynamic, highly competitive market turns out to be really hard.

Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it’s not working.

Quit while you’re ahead.
All the best gamblers do.

a decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw,

it is a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt.

It’s really quite easy,” he said. “I’m standing around a table, when some guy says, ‘It’s comin’ out nine! It’s gotta be a nine!’ The guy’s excited; he thinks it’s going to be a nine, and he wants to bet. Now I know the odds for all the numbers inside out, so I say to him, ‘I’ll bet you four to three it’s not a nine,’ and I win in the long run. I don’t bet on the table; instead, I bet with people around the table who have prejudices — superstitious ideas about lucky numbers.” Nick

If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose — the gambler is always ruined.

You will never get right until you start right.

When everything is working out for you, it means you are in the wrong gym.

When luck ain't with you, it's against you.

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.

Sometime you can do everything right and still lose. It’s all a journey. You do your best, and then you have to let it go. Lots of people preach that, but come crunch time — oops, not so easy to do.