Lottery Ticket Quotes - Page 2

• The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.

  Peter Lynch

  Simple, Stories, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Retirement, Government, Ideas

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• An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.

  Peter Lynch

  Keys, Important, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Lonely, Hate, Night

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.415, Macmillan

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• I've always said that it's like being the winner of three separate lottery tickets - getting a pilot, getting the pilot picked up, and having a show that actually lasts.

  Rick Hoffman

  Three, Pilots, Lasts

  Source: collider.com

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• Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

  Rebecca Solnit

  War, Commitment, Doors

  "Hope In The Dark". Book by Rebecca Solnit, 2010.

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• Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.

  Grant Morrison

  Winning, Magic, Desire

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• So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Symphony, Long, Pieces

  Eduard Hanslick (1957). “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

  Atul Gawande

  Winning, Dollars, Tickets

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.92, Metropolitan Books

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• What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Volleyball, Odds, Should Have

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• The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

  Donald Barthelme

  Tickets, Spots, Concern

  Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

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• I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. But I had to give it back.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Giving

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• I bought a scratch off lottery ticket, but then I accidentally spilled calamine lotion on it, so it did not need to be scratched. Shoot! I will not know if I have won!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Scratches

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• When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.

  Robert Haugen

  Games, Tickets, Distribution

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 3, Estimating Portfolio Risk and Expected Return with Ad Hoc Factor Models, p. 29, 1999.

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• It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues. It's just fake gold and plastic... We crying for votes but how many of us is on the board. Better yet, when's the last time you showed up and supported the NAACP Awards?

  Nick Cannon

  Awards, Fake, Gold

  "Nick Cannon Shares Spoken Word Poem About Oscars Controversy". www.billboard.com. January 24, 2016.

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