Sentence examples for gambles from inspiring English sources

In order to get ahead, you have to take risks and if 70% of your gambles succeed, it's worth it.

But as he embarks on his European venture, one of the greatest gambles a PM has taken in recent times, he leaves his stall in the political market place curiously empty.

It's big choices that make high stakes gambles worthwhile.

As the waters become choppier, they will be far less willing to take such gambles.

Many of their gambles do not come off, but some of those that make it deliver huge rewards.

The average guess when the wheel showed 10 was 25%; when it showed 65 it was 45%.Experiments show that most people apparently also suffer from status quo bias: they are willing to take bigger gambles to maintain the status quo than they would be to acquire it in the first place.

German bankruptcy laws, for example, can ban entrepreneurial businessmen from operating a company for decades if their gambles backfire, while in corporate America, you are nobody until you have been made bankrupt a couple of times.

Ending America's "combat mission" is a gamble and gambles can be lost.

He has bet his presidency on two huge gambles.

Counting every moment Taking the long view ReprintsSome of these gambles have paid off handsomely, transforming Amazon from an online retailer of books and other physical products into a technology behemoth with $48 billion of revenues in 2011 and strong positions in fields from cloud computing to tablet devices.

This directly explains why people turn down even very small gambles with positive expected gains.