Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Bowles

I'm not completely vegan - my diet's probably about 80 percent plant based, but I do eat some meat. I try to know where everything comes from, though. And all bets are off if my husband and I go to a really great restaurant.

With uncertainty over the Fed, people are taking bets off the table and that's hurting the dollar. People are a little less certain the dollar will keep advancing.

...Almost playing a poker game with crude oil prices, making a series of bets about where prices are going to be going. That speculation is really what is driving prices up.

This is what March Madness is all about and it's why everybody bets on college basketball. It's about cheering for the underdog and watching the Cinderella teams take on the big guns. Despite taking in a record number of bets, it's astonishing to think only 13 people bet on George Mason at the start of the tournament. It's the ultimate long shot bet and it could make these 13 customers very, very happy.

Christopher Wills

They really are a very forgiving system, but if you come in and chop everything down and turn it into parking lots or shopping centers, then of course all bets are off.

It's a wait and see. If we get another powerful storm that does damage to refining capacity in particular, I think all bets can be off if gasoline prices will go higher and stay there.

Despite the prohibitive odds, punters have still been piling in for O'Neill all day, surprisingly the vast majority of bets have come from the south coast.

David Jones

The simple fact is this: a lot of global investors have been making big bets on equities around the world. Now they're pulling back, ... They're worrying about a riskier world, particularly about difficulties in Asia.

A couple of years ago it was 'sequel, sequel, sequel,' ... I think Hollywood is erring on the side of caution by thinking that a concept that has proven to be successful can be a way to hedge its bets and take out some of the risk.

Qualcomm is hedging its bets -- in case CDMA eventually gets killed off or loses out to OFDM.

The stock market is poised to take off when the Fed gives a hint of concluding its rate hikes. That's premised on the notion that they haven't gone too far. If they go too high, the damage is done and all bets are off.

Ruth Glick

Is it better to go indie and make bigger profits on each book, or stick with a print publisher's 6%-10% royalties? Since I never could figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up, I'm hedging my bets and working both sides of the street.

We'd gotten a little oversold in the last few days and so we're coming back a little now, with people making some cautious bets on a few individual issues.

The extraordinary sequence of bets has a look of an unholy type of alliance.

Jack Kelly

Especially in the Chicago area, there will be a 10 percent to 15 percent decrease in bets wagered.

Philip Rosedale

Everything you're seeing now, the community built. It's part of a new weird nation where all bets are off. Here, the future is yours to create.

At this point I am guessing that the Fed is pretty committed to raising rates in January but after that all bets are off.

We cannot now see beyond these five as serious candidates, despite having taken bets for some thirty contenders in all

Sentiment on exporter shares will take a hit because of the stronger won. Investors will probably wait until making further bets on exporters and focus on domestic-demand related stocks.

Kurt Eichenwald

Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don't be fooled. In the parlance of popping investment bubbles, it's something called a 'dead-cat bounce.' People who are desperate to keep the game going rush back in, hoping to bring the price back up, but it never lasts.

Obviously, we are still concerned about how much the economy is slowing going forward. There are a lot of people who aren't making bets on this marketplace.

Given that the whole world is not rushing to buy technology mutual funds right now, we'd have to sell something to buy something. For the most part our bets are down,

If this were a presidential race we'd be up until the early hours of the morning waiting to declare a winner. What the trends show is that everybody has an opinion and everybody bets on March Madness.

I had people taking bets that (seeking more administrators) would be the first thing we would do.

Felix Magath

He's totally innocent. He never bets and does not even play cards.

People have got high hopes for this number, to justify some of the bigger expectations for Fed rate increases we've seen develop this week. No one's going to want to put on big bets before the report though.

Some of the bets we made did not pay off.

My son watches the BETs and videos and sees the fads. I want him to see that there are other options and teach him to use his head about deciding what he wants to do with his life.

Most funds we see keep their interest rate bets to a minimum.

Lockheed is hedging its bets just in case it lost out on the Joint Strike Fighter contract. Northrop has a lot of the avionics that go onto military aircraft.

If Fitzgerald comes down with something that strikes the White House, all bets are off with conservatism. It's the post-Bush era.

I don't think there were a ton of bets placed during this particular quarter, but it does cause some wacky moves,

David Rosenberg

That's a significant statement. We are hedging our bets and don't see a great risk in doing it.