Economics Quote by Molly Bloom

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly…

— Curt Schilling

When I started, (players) were making $4,000. Now, they don't get out of bed and they already make $10,000.

— Milo Hamilton

If you talk to people about the history of the games business during economic downturns, they'll tell you that it's a recession-proof industry.

— Bobby Kotick

“Revenues were, according to well-informed sources, more than $550 million for 2009—up from less than $300 million in 2008. That represents a stunning growth…

— David Kirkpatrick

I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we…

— Eric Davis

In 1992, we did $1.1 billion in revenues. In the first nine months of 1993, we did just under $1.2 billion.

— Ted Waitt

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…

— Molly Bloom

I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke…

— John Catsimatidis

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

We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.

— Anonymous

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year…

— Ava Gardner

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year

— John Warren Kindt