“I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end.”
― Molly Bloom
“Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.”
― Molly Bloom
“You’re as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it’s just… it’s been really healing, and I’ve found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.”
― Molly Bloom
“I saw someone lose $100 million in one night. When you watch that, as an owner-operator of a game, you realize that these numbers are incredibly unsustainable, incredibly unhealthy. So, I was not happy about this loss. It brought me no joy or adrenaline.”
― Molly Bloom
“I think everyone can relate to that fall from grace – having life change in an instant or having to stand for some of your bad choices, that feeling of ‘Nothing is ever going to be good again.’”
― Molly Bloom
“You can tell a lot about a man’s character by watching him win or lose money.”
― Molly Bloom
“High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich – people will find a way to gamble.”
― Molly Bloom
“This was 2008, you know. The economy was falling apart, spiraling. And I was hosting a game in New York, and there was $5 to $7 million on the table.”
― Molly Bloom
“I approach everything, including sobriety, with the same mentality I approached sports with. You’re going to put in the time. You’ve got to suit up, show up, and keep your eyes on the win.”
― Molly Bloom
“In sports, especially skiing, you have to be comfortable with risk. You have to have a relationship with fear, and it can’t dominate the decision-making process.”
― Molly Bloom
“Even if there are people around to help you, you don’t suffer with an audience; you don’t triumph with an audience.”
― Molly Bloom
“I did a little soul searching to explore where I had gone wrong, why I made the decisions I did, how my definitions of success and ambition were off. I love a great new pair of shoes – I love to look at my bank account and see zeroes – but what is it attached to?”
― Molly Bloom
“I would love to raise a fund or get some awesome empowered women together and put together an advisory board to get behind female entrepreneurs.”
― Molly Bloom
“My regular game in New York City was a $250,000 buy-in, no limit. So people were burning through that, a lot of times in the first 30 minutes.”
― Molly Bloom
“I believed that writing my story was my best shot to be able to pay my mom and my attorneys back and pull myself out of this massive crisis that I had put myself in.”
― Molly Bloom
“I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.”
― Molly Bloom
“I have been hugely successful at times in my life, and I have also been in ruins. But the lessons I learned on the way up were just as valuable on the way down.”
― Molly Bloom
“I’ve been rich; I’ve been poor. I’ve been successful; I’ve been decimated. And the way I felt inside didn’t change dramatically. It’s less stressful to have money, that’s for sure. But that doesn’t mean I felt fulfilled. So I’ve learned to live in the smaller moments of life.”
― Molly Bloom
“I’ve always been very ambitious and very determined and very compassionate at the same time.”
― Molly Bloom
“I hang out with my grandma, go to sleep at 8:30, and that’s it.”
― Molly Bloom
“I felt invisible in my family, and I wanted to be significant like my brothers were significant. I wanted my parents to pay attention, so I went out into the world with that driving me, that grasping, that seeking validation.”
― Molly Bloom
“Look at the things you’ve done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.”
― Molly Bloom
“My father is a psychologist who wouldn’t let fear stop us. Particularly with me, he was hell bent on requiring us and teaching us to walk through fear. I don’t know if I would’ve become someone who taps into their ability to push through those tough situations without him.”
― Molly Bloom
“Getting the book published and the movie made was not an easy task. But it helped. Because even though it’s a difficult life to explain, I lived it.”
― Molly Bloom
“The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.”
― Molly Bloom
“I’ve seen what power women have in unification, and I would love to create co-working spaces and networks for female entrepreneurs.”
― Molly Bloom
“When I’m in a hectic crowd of people, I don’t feel great. I’m looking over my shoulder. I feel exposed.”
― Molly Bloom
“You’re going up against the billionaire boys’ club or trying to find your way into something you have no basis for, and it’s bigger than anything you ever imagined – and then actually having that work. Having that risk pan out. It taught me to be very fearless – maybe too fearless in the end.”
― Molly Bloom
“Every card player in Hollywood wanted to come to the games. Everyone’s friends and their friends wanted to come to watch.”
― Molly Bloom
“Tobey Maguire and I had a tough relationship – it was a tough working relationship. We butted heads, and ultimately, I lost the Los Angeles game because of differences with him. But then I moved to New York and built a bigger game, five times bigger, making more money, and that was pretty exciting.”
― Molly Bloom
“I don’t really miss the Hollywood lifestyle.”
― Molly Bloom
“Everyone has their dreams and their rise and their own version of a fall from grace.”
― Molly Bloom
“Being humble got me very far when I went to L.A., because it was in stark contrast to this town of people who were so cutthroat.”
― Molly Bloom
“I believe that to get what you want as a woman is to use your brain, to have a job, and to not need someone or have to make decisions based on that.”
― Molly Bloom
“In terms of my own life and the mistakes I made and the struggles I had, I’m grateful for them. It taught me more than success and opportunity ever did.”
― Molly Bloom
“I developed an interesting skill set in that I was able to create a network and create experiences and environment – I built this decadent playground for men. It might have been successful, but it wasn’t important. It didn’t have any true meaning.”
― Molly Bloom
“The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.”
― Molly Bloom
“Literally, if you weren’t the best in the world in my family, it wasn’t impressive.”
― Molly Bloom
“I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit. My life was really stressful.”
― Molly Bloom
“In 2009, my tax returns showed over $4 million.”
― Molly Bloom
“I’m finally my dad’s favourite because Kevin Costner is playing him.”
― Molly Bloom
“After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just wanted to take a year off. And I had a friend that lived in Los Angeles, said I could crash on his couch. And so I just kind of did the first really spontaneous thing I’d done in my young adult life.”
― Molly Bloom
“I had a full-time driver, or I would take my Bentley. I’d have big houses in the Hamptons for the summer, taking seaplanes or helicopters out. I did a lot of flying privately to Miami. A lot of shopping.”
― Molly Bloom
“Ideally, I would like to not be in the public eye.”
― Molly Bloom
“I logged into my bank accounts, and they were all seized, all frozen. So that was a pretty clear indication that I was in big trouble.”
― Molly Bloom
“Know when to fold. Pay attention to the signs. They’re there.”
― Molly Bloom
“I moved to Los Angeles. My parents were not on board with that, and so I had to get a lot of different jobs. One of them was working for a man in Hollywood who had a weekly poker game.”
― Molly Bloom
“I kept these games pretty intimate. You know, with this much money on the table, with this much risk, you wanted to make people feel safe. They don’t want to feel like they’re part of a spectator’s sport – well, the winners do, but the losers do not.”
― Molly Bloom
“Because of athletics, I got real comfortable with risk at a young age.”
― Molly Bloom
“I created a lot of drama and mess in my life.”
― Molly Bloom
“I’m really kind of a behind-the-scenes person.”
― Molly Bloom
“I think my dad really wanted me to survive the world. He knew as a psychologist how difficult the world is, and I think he wanted me to be tough.”
― Molly Bloom
“I think, before I had money, I believed that money would solve my problems, that it would give me power and I wouldn’t have financial stress anymore, and it would completely change my life. And then, when I had money, it changed a lot of things, but it didn’t change the way I felt inside at all.”
― Molly Bloom
“I was in the company of movie stars, important directors, and powerful business tycoons. I felt like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole.”
― Molly Bloom
“Money is the great equalizer.”
― Molly Bloom
“The chemistry at a table is so important. You must start with a carefully balanced mix of personalities. If the balance is off, and the stakes are too big for some of the players, it kills the game. Too small, and everybody gets bored.”
― Molly Bloom
“I made the choice to go into the world of underground poker.”
― Molly Bloom
“When I was making the most money at the top of my game, driving Bentleys and all that, I felt so existentially empty.”
― Molly Bloom
“It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.”
― Molly Bloom
“I’d spent life so terrified of failure that when it happened, it was very liberating.”
― Molly Bloom
“I built the most exclusive and decadent high-profile club for powerful men.”
― Molly Bloom
“I made a lot of mistakes.”
― Molly Bloom
“I lived across from a cornfield when I was growing up.”
― Molly Bloom
“I’m all about second chances.”
― Molly Bloom
“I don’t think anyone’s private life stands up to public scrutiny.”
― Molly Bloom
“My mom had put her house up to bail me out of jail!”
― Molly Bloom
“I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.”
― Molly Bloom
“I grew up in a very high-achieving family. I have a brother who’s a Harvard-educated cardiothoracic surgeon. My other brother is a two-time Olympian, fifth-round draft pick for the Philadelphia Eagles, and an entrepreneur and philanthropist.”
― Molly Bloom
“Tobey Maguire was the worst tipper, the best player, and the absolute worst loser.”
― Molly Bloom
“When you’re willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it’s no longer recreation. It’s taking over.”
― Molly Bloom
“I’m definitely a gambler, as exemplified by the massive risks I’ve taken.”
― Molly Bloom
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