Sentences with phrase «risk than gambling»

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I recently took 2 positions in stocks I think could be multi-baggers, and I generally think I have more gamble in me than most, but I just don't have the guts to risk a meaningful portion of my savings on those real volatile type stocks.

With the youngest boomer age 50 and most of the generation retiring over the next 16 years, making the right investment decision has become more crucial than ever before, as the risk of making speculative gambles can no longer be entertained.

As of Monday, Reilly's investigation had uncovered no evidence of point shaving, but the BC scandal revealed a deep and troubling gambling involvement by team members and served as a warning to all college athletes: When they place a bet with a bookie, they are risking more than money or the possibility that bookies might get their hooks into them.

New Jaguars general manager David Caldwell may opt for the safe pick in Fisher rather than gambling on a high risk game - changer.

The Celtics have taken on the risk of relying on four future Hall of Famers who have each played more than 35,000 career minutes: If that gamble backfires and Shaquille O'Neal, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen or Paul Pierce happens to break down, then which contender in the East is going to stop the Heat?

Insure modest gains for the next generation, having great faith in your eventual resurrection rather than selfishly gambling everything on yourself and risking the survival of the human race which is supposed to play a role in your eventual resurrection.

More than 100 schools expressed an interest in taking part in the Demos» pilot, signalling a significant awareness of the risks posed to young people from gambling harms.

Until now, a typical print run of a title has been a gamble for the publisher, who wants to not only meet consumer demand while not producing greater output than necessary; the bookseller, too, was taking a significant risk on placing too many copies of a title on the sales floor and potentially losing valuable sales space at the same time.

Rather than an educational experience, practice accounts are a little like play - money sessions at Las Vegas, where gambling novices can learn to play casino games without risking any real cash.

If you wouldn't go to Vegas to gamble away your money, why would you feel it's a good thing to take on more risk than you have to?

The larger issue is that I have to live somewhere and my family needs a roof over their head and I will not risk that for any «gamble» on the hopes of a big investment lucky strike or giving me a couple percent more than the interest on the mortgage or the risk to my family's habitat.

Being a high - risk client is not something life insurance companies love to have and that's terrible to say but high - risk clients are more of a gamble than healthy clients.

Finally, I believe South Koreans have a larger appetite for risk than Western traders, and trade in a pattern that more closely resembles gambling.

Investors are, however, cautioned that for the most part, binary options trading is akin to gambling (as it is more risky than traditional investment options), and risks should be carefully considered from the outset.