Zitat des Tages über Wetten / Betting:
Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
I'm not a betting man.
I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.
I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.
Betting shops have a big impact on encouraging on-street drinking and can often become a centre for disorder and anti-social behaviour.
Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.
I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.
All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.
As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.
Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was 11.
The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.
I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.
Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
We still have to keep betting on markets like America that are full of opportunities to grow, even if we have to work our heads off to do it.
Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.
You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.
We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.
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.
I'm not the betting kind.
If you're making all your money simply betting on interest rates, that's not a business. Flow is a business. On the outside, they look the same for a while. But when you dig into them, no, they weren't exactly the same.
Mr. Soros, the chairman of Soros Fund Management, is best-known as a speculator, philanthropist and political activist. He made a fortune by doing things such as betting against Britain's currency in 1992 and Thailand's in 1997. A Hungarian refugee, he has spent millions to promote democracy and learning in post-Soviet nations.
Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.
The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investors - including all of the big investment banks - bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007.
I am betting on Google's team to be the epicenter of future breakthroughs.
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.
Betting all your funds on the belief that you know what consumers want and are willing to pay for is like jumping into a river to test its depth - you'll need a lot of luck to stay afloat. To have a truly successful product launch, the conversations with your customers must start long before you write your first line of code.
My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.
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.
A startup job is an investment, after all: Venture capitalists may wager money, but you're staking something more precious - your time. And unlike VCs, you can't spread your risk by betting on a bunch of companies at once. Start with TAM. That's 'total addressable market,' and if it's not big enough, there's no point in talking.
