Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oracle is betting on PeopleSoft stumbling sometime next year but that's unlikely,

People have done very well betting on the dollar in the past year and they're not going to give up just yet, but there is some nervousness. People are cutting their positions.

People mostly see it as a sporting event. In a way, it doesn't matter if they've seen the movies. They watch it so they can win their office betting pools. They watch it to see stars make fool of themselves, or show their insecurities by gushing: 'You LIKE me!

Spread betting is growth business, and growth in the last six months has actually accelerated as stockbrokers have been referring clients to IG to use its platform.

Calvin Ayre

Sports betting is going to continue to steadily grow. Some market analysts suggest a 10-20% growth per year.

The acquisition extends our cross-selling opportunities and further strengthens our management team with US-facing sports betting expertise.

I went back to school simply because it was a weak job market. I was betting that it would recover by the time I got out.

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.

I think he's looked a little flat in the slalom, but he has a way of stepping up on race day. I wouldn't be surprised to see him get some medals. I've been betting on Bode for years.

David Healy

Maybe some of their money managers think, like I do, that the stock is cheap because they aren't going bankrupt. Morgan Stanley has a huge asset-management business, so it's not like they're betting the ranch on GM.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even really care, to be totally honest. I'm really concerned about the lineup. I know I'm not betting on getting any hits off him, I'm just trying to keep the game as close as I can to give my team a chance.

Susanna Moore

I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was 11.

Chuck Schumer

I for one have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, wondering how I should vote, ... This is a vote over the chief justice of the Supreme Court ... this isn't just rolling the dice, it's betting the whole house.

Given the big discount to other optical equipment manufacturing stocks, we think the downside is limited. We think it is worth buying the stock and are betting that management will deliver.

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.

From a betting odds perspective, what is the most unlikely thing to have happened in football?

Knowing there's not going to be another opportunity tomorrow to buy the next player, you have a lot of people betting on this round right now.

Italy and Spain were very different -- you could make a lot of money betting on specific countries.

I think with some of the new trainers and some of the other guys who have been coming here, it's going to be a fun meet with plenty of betting opportunities.

I would have gone broke betting that she wouldn't do it.

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.

We can expect a jobless rate of 9 percent by the summer, and that can have a positive impact on consumers confidence and on spending. The government's betting it will have a psychological impact.

Bob Wright

When you put your investment in content - which is what we have done and will continue to do - you're not betting on any one technology. You're betting on them all.

Jules Verne

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.

Senators are betting that pandering to the public with billions in election-year promises will pay off more than they lose by cutting the fiscal conservatives in their own party off at the knees.

Sandro Veronesi

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

Jeffrey Kluger

There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.

Beth Brooke

Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future - for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging economies whose development depends on this new talent, and, of course, for their own financial growth.

Bob Beauprez

The number of realists who are betting that both the 'economy gets healthy soon' and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed.

The rates prospects are giving courage to people. They want to buy one day before the market rises and many are betting that it will rise more tomorrow.

Toymakers are bringing back proven hits because it's less risky than betting on something new,

Drew Goddard

I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the job, you need things to foster camaraderie and let off steam.

We're down in betting and I'm very disappointed, ... We did everything we could do to improve the racing product. Everybody told me a year ago it was all about purses.