“I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was ...” — Susanna Moore Quote

“I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was 11.”

“The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.”

“When I was nine, I was taught to ride a surfboard in Waikiki by the beach boy Rabbit Kekai.”

“When I went up from the youth team to the first team at Internacional, it was a risk - they were almost betting on me making it.”

“Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.”

“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.”