Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Trevor Linden

We have to keep things in perspective a little bit. They're (alleging that there has been) betting on football, not an uncommon thing. I don't think we should get too carried away with throwing people under the bus. It's an unfortunate situation and something that will be taken pretty seriously. Wayne Gretzky is a pretty well-respected guy and he deserves that.

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.

We are betting the bank, building our future on convergence,

Charles Phillips

We're betting he's the next CEO of Oracle so you better get to know him if you don't already,

On his person he had a list of video poker machine locations and betting sheets.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

We're still betting $3 the Swans, but I can see that shortening.

David Stern

We're going to Las Vegas because we think it's a great destination city. They have removed the All-Star events from the betting line, and we think that we have no problem with people who want to go there and gamble.

Unless the outcome contains a major negative surprise, the underlying firm tone of the dollar is expected to be sustained, as the market is now betting on continued interest rate hikes in the US.

We're really betting on two horses: We will continue to support Visual Studio.Net, and in the non-.Net world, we're going to be using Eclipse.

Avi Arad

were a betting man....yes, you will see Phoenix in this movie.

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.

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.

Steve Jobs

We didn't have anything to go on, ... It was our first film and you know there was sort of a betting pool around here as to how well it would do, and I would say the majority of folks thought it would be less successful than it was. I think we were stunned.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.