Gambling Quotes · Page 18

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy

— John Warren Kindt

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

— John Warren Kindt

I am not alone in football in having a problem with gambling.

— Joey Barton

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

— Tim Page

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

— Germaine Greer

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

— Frank Scoblete

Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

— Jan Garavaglia

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

— Neil Simon

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

— John Warren Kindt

Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the…

— John Warren Kindt

There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a…

— Mario Cuomo

Whether I make two dollars or no dollars, it's better than losing. I've got enough people playing the games at the casino…

— Larry Holmes

I typically don't bet out on the flop because I've been in the business of trapping my ultra-aggressive opponents so much that…

— Phil Hellmuth

Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.

— Timothy L. O'Brien

We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that.…

— Steve Jobs

While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and…

— John Warren Kindt

I was re-watching 'E.T.' recently, and that scene where they're all around the pizza, bringing the pizza in, and gambling and stuff…

— Colin Trevorrow

“It's my opinion he don't want to kill you,' said Perea - 'at least not yet. I've heard deir idea is to…

— H.G. Wells

“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high…

— Malcolm Cowley

“On a strange and devious way, Siddhartha had gotten into this final and most base of all dependencies, by means of the…

— Hermann Hesse

“the late 1990s, one of the largest slot machine manufacturers hired a former video game executive to help them design new slots.…

— Charles Duhigg

It is far best for the Christian never to see some things, so he will never want them. The old-fashioned Christian who…

— John R. Rice

“I had, of course, witnessed hundreds of people in a casino before, mindlessly dropping coins into slot machines. They don't play for…

— J. Maarten Troost

“Mr. Brooker, though out of work for two years, was a miner by trade, but he and his wife had been keeping…

— George Orwell

The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.

— Nick Dandolos

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

— Richard Roeper

Gambling cant rely on management. If its bout business Ima handle it. I see it all like an analyst.

— Tyga

I'm no different from anyone else but I don't trust giving my details online, so any betting I do, I go into…

— Kyle Lafferty

I tell ya, gambling never agreed with me. Last week I went to the track and they shot my horse with the…

— Rodney Dangerfield

“Love is like gamble. From the start you know you'll loose everything you have.”

— Arzum Uzun

The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.

— Gerolamo Cardano

Playing the stock market is very similar to playing the lottery, except you actually win sometimes at the lottery

— Hussein Nishah

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

— Albert Camus

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.

— Molly Bloom

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

— James Surowiecki

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

— Mitch Hedberg

Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development

— John Warren Kindt

I don't play roulette, but it's funny: whenever somebody I know is going to Vegas, I'm like, 'Put it on black.'

— Gilbert Arenas

“This is Blackjack himself,” I said. “Your work so far has been superb. I expect even more. Keep the bastards dying!”

— William F. Halsey

Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

— M. John Harrison