Quotes About Casinos

#1. A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

Charlie Munger

#2. There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.

Elayne Boosler

#3. Lourdes was an intoxicating place. I remember thinking that it was probably what Las Vegas would have been like if casinos and nightclubs had been replaced by Catholicism.

Arthur Matthews

#4. 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

#5. Nick sat alone reading a copy of The Independent . Cocaine socialists were trying their hardest to juice up Britain's economy with super casinos

Saira Viola

#6. 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

#7. Most players unfortunately go to the casinos with an attitude that makes it even easier for casinos to psyche them into losing. Most except to lose; therefore, it's not too surprising when they achieve their goal.

Henry Tamburin

#8. 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

#9. Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos.

Greg Proops

#10. Players come to Belle Rock's casinos to have fun, find excitement, or play in a safe environment, but no matter what the reason, they all come to win. In February, we want to reward our loyal players by making the chances of winning big that much greater.

Tim Johnson

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I am worried about the potential effect of casinos on communities.

Donald Berwick

#15. Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.

Eric Schneiderman

#16. 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

#17. Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers.

Jimmy Hoffa

#18. A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

Stephen Young

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. And with the lower docking fees, Eros Station found other ways to soak money from its visitors: Casinos. Brothels. Shooting galleries. Vice in all its commercial forms found a home in Eros, its local economy blooming like a fungus fed by the desires of Belters.

James S.A. Corey

#25. Wall Street investment banks are like Las Vegas casinos: They set the odds. The customer who plays zero-sum games against them may win from time to time but never systematically, and never so spectacularly that he bankrupts the casino.

Michael Lewis

#26. 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

#27. Trump tried to book Penn & Teller once in Vegas at one of his casinos, but we were priced out of his budget.

Penn Jillette

#28. 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

#29. Does your family play games, too?" She tries to sound off-hand.
"No. Just me - and my brother."
Which means her parents are in the casinos, then, leaving this kid in a collapsing mine. Okay, a virtual one, but still.

Nenia Campbell

#30. that. You see, not all of the casinos have

Michael Connelly

#31. 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

#32. A large percentage of the staff plays both online and here at the Casinos.

Tim Page

#33. Holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos - what's to complain about?

Rush Limbaugh

#34. People gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and turn with the cards and lose themselves, with the coins, in the slots. They want to know they matter.

Neil Gaiman

#35. The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.

Tina Thompson

#36. You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

Kevin Hart

#37. By loaning banks money for no interest, you're really letting them into the casinos with the house's money, aren't you?

Kenneth Eade

#38. I want to put you all at ease. We will tolerate no guerrillas in the casinos or the swimming pools!" Fulgencio Batista as Dictator of Cuba, page 228 "The Exciting Story of Cuba.

Hank Bracker

#39. 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

#40. Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. I am an Ivy league graduate. I have a Harvard MBA. I've opened casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and the French Riviera. I've worked for the Santangelo's, the Lucchetti's and the Gambino's.

Jackie Chanel

#45. Mars looks like Vegas without the casinos.

Sam Neill

#46. 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

#47. Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

Gabe Kaplan

#48. 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

#49. Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

Rebecca West

#50. The best bet you get is an even break.

Franklin P. Adams

#51. Waltes is still played, which is a bowl and dice game that's traditional for this area.

Richard Dyer

#52. Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.

Ted Allen

#53. 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

#54. The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

#55. I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

Richard Ingrams

#56. The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.

Dorothy Parker

#57. I love Vegas. God knows that I know how to find my way around the buffets in Las Vegas.

Rick Majerus

#58. Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

Bernie Sanders