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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term. -- Marilyn vos Savant
The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars. -- Tina Thompson
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. -- Samantha Bee
I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running. -- Robert Irvine
I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates. -- Mel Tillis
Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys -- John Warren Kindt
A large percentage of the staff plays both online and here at the Casinos. -- Tim Page
Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets. -- Maria Cantwell
I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada. -- Tia Carrere
With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights. -- Richard Branson
When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done -- John Maynard Keynes
When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions. -- Henry Tamburin
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. -- Thomas Sowell
I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro. -- Rene Russo
The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play. -- Henry Tamburin
People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all... -- Robert De Niro
Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things. -- Trish Stratus
Casinos are spreading like wildfire, and it seems to be an entertainment option that a significant number of people engage in. That's just the reality of gaming that it is proving to be attractive to a great number of people. -- Ron Porter
A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely this moment that made Play It As It Lays begin to tell itself to me. -- Joan Didion
Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know. -- Val Guest
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. -- Vince Cable
Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five. -- Burton Malkiel
Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done. -- John Maynard Keynes
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. -- Mitch Hedberg
At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos. I know a lot more about being white than you know about being Indian. -- Sherman Alexie
What I have seen in the past 10 years of traveling- performing at a church one day and a casino the next- is that a lot of people in the church want to be entertained, and people in casinos want to be ministered to. That's hard to understand, but I see a hunger in the world that I don't see in the church. -- Ricky Skaggs
Independent record stores are like a casino where you put down your money and you always win. How amazing to discover gems you didn't know about, to meet someone more passionate than you are, and to feel at home in a place you may never have been to before. I'm convinced they will never lose their place - Long may they rule. -- KT Tunstall
You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos. -- Kevin Hart
I am worried about the potential effect of casinos on communities. -- Donald Berwick
Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs. -- Gabe Kaplan
There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb. -- Elayne Boosler
I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor. -- Patrick Wilson
Some of the happiest times I ever saw my dad was times when I was with him in the casinos, and he had a good night. -- James Packer
In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license. -- Don Rickles
I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts. -- Tony Parsons
I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests. -- Al Jourgensen
The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more. -- James Chanos
In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages. -- Daniel Boulud
In America you can be Donald Trump, have a business go wrong, and file for Chapter 11. You can move on, and no one complains. When his casinos were in Chapter 11, he was still on TV telling people how to get rich. I had to persevere for years with easyInternet because I couldn't afford to hurt the brand. -- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous. -- James Packer
I don't gamble anymore since I had a kid. I have fun in Vegas. I see shows, Cirque du Soleil. Don Rickles was in town last time I was there. I'll have lunch with George Wallace. I just look in the Weekly calendar and see who's performing, and inevitably, we all meet up late night at one of the casinos. Jesus, I sound boring. -- Greg Fitzsimmons
Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos -- John Warren Kindt
In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos -- John Warren Kindt
A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag. -- Charlie Munger
The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas -- John Warren Kindt
Holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos - what's to complain about? -- Rush Limbaugh
Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers. -- Jimmy Hoffa
Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos. -- Greg Proops
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people." -- Samantha Bee
It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges. -- John Maynard Keynes
There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts to attract people. -- Toru Hashimoto
The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens. -- Frank Scoblete
A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until it is clear what the impact is on America -- John Warren Kindt
I'd work on my game online and at casinos, build my bankroll, find good games, and try to put myself in a position to keep winning and earn a steady income. -- Phil Ivey
People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos. -- John Warren Kindt
President Obama flew to a rally in Las Vegas last night. However, he did not visit any of the casinos. You know why? When you're $16 trillion in debt, they don't let you in. -- Jay Leno
I don't do casinos or prisons; I like to do projects that enhance the lives of everyday people, like campus buildings, libraries, museums and government buildings. That's why I love working in the public sector. -- Philip Freelon

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