Even being right three or four times out of 10
should yield a person a fortune
if they have the sense to cut losses quickly.
Bernard Baruch
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable,
than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus (485 BC - 425 BC)
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill,
but he will do very few things.
George Savile (1633-95)
Marquis of Halifax, English politician and essayist
I never gamble.
J.P. Morgan (1837 – 1913) financier
The noisome weeds, that without profit,
suck the soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.
William Shakespeare (King Richard II)
The ultimate measure of a man
is not where he stands in moments of comfort,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The struggle of humanity against tyranny
is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Unknown
The men who succeed best in public life
are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
James Garfield, 20th U.S. president
You pay your money, you take your chances.
Eight Ball Deluxe
A pinball machine I played in college
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