Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Anders

I think the Suncoast will have minimal impact on the locals market. The market grows fast enough to more than make up for increases in casino supply.

I think people get desensitized by cameras. They get used to them in casinos and then are less surprised when they are elsewhere.

We have been tracking the increasing trend towards technical casino crime for some years now and are pleased that our internal procedures proved successful once again.

We intend to create a nationwide casino network, not unlike that of some of our larger competitors.

We have to think about the people first. Then we can think about the business. We're dealing with a scale of disaster we've never seen before (in the casino industry). We're literally at square one right now.

We do not have any dealings with Mr. Stanley Ho. There was no application for casino operation or any floating casino.

We do a lot of special orders and a lot of custom fittings and it has gone over real well with casino patrons.

The stigma of playing in casinos is long gone. They've improved over the years.

Donald Trump

People don't want to hear about the casino business, ... We have never done better as a company, and yet our stock price is lousy.

Saturday night we had five young Italian people in here. They were heading to the casinos and stopped here. They got espressos, but they saw this and went crazy.

There's been not enough made out of the ripple effect that the casinos bring. It extends into individual proprietorships like the coffee shops.

Think Sinatra and Dean Martin and Hollywood starlets throwing down chips in Art Deco casinos like the Dunes and Sands. That's where these pieces come from.

This is an effort by regulators to bully, intimidate and threaten casinos in a totally inappropriate manner. Clearly, they are playing with fire.

This is going to go forward whether the casino happens or not.

This is something that's been ongoing forever and ever. As soon as you get two casinos next to each other, there is going to be some sort of competition. They see somebody's doing something and it's cutting into their market share, they're going to act.

This casino was originally the first casino to open in the market back in 1992, and we are the first land-based Gulf Coast casino to open today following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Everything to do with travel and leisure and theme parks and hotels and casinos is just getting mashed. But I think once people get over their shock and sadness, a vacation might seem like a good idea.

There's still about two months to go before the casino proposals are submitted. It's too early in the game to write them off.

Patrick Wilson

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.

Jon Lucas

I've never understood why putting a casino on water makes it palatable to some.

I used to save pennies for my 10-year-old grandson. I had one of those casino buckets full, another three-quarters. My wife thinks I'm crazy for picking them up.

We certainly would have preferred that the mayor talk to us before he went to the press given that we have the exclusive right to operate a land-based casino in New Orleans.

I just don't think they ought to have a monopoly on the casino licenses,

In West Texas, he was making them to get the Native American casinos out there. He has been spreading money around in return for currying political favors." ()

In the past month we've seen record-breaking earning announcements from a number of the top casino gaming companies. It didn't seem to matter went on with the economy or gas prices, people found their way to the casinos and race tracks.

Changing the entire identity of our town from a historic national treasure to a casino town won't come as cheap as the offer on the table before you tonight.

George is a smart casino operator, but he is equally as smart when it comes to public relations and publicity. These rooms will drive huge amounts of publicity for the Palms, which in turn drives huge amounts of customer volume for the casino.

That's really popular these days with the kids. Casino stuff.

It will cannibalize, but the difference is you have a 50 percent tax rate and you have a slot parlor as opposed to a much lower tax rate in New Jersey and a full-blown casino resort. The level of amenities is going to be much less (in Pennsylvania).

I've had conversations with five CEOs of major casino companies, including Harrah's and MGM and Casino Magic. They tell me they're reluctant to rebuild if the other factors still exist,

It was a great challenge. What we are doing is offering people the chance to experience what a gourmet casino restaurant is like in a comfortable price range. People have been pleasantly surprised.

Chris Moneymaker

If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action.

The L.A. market is important to the growth of the casino market in San Diego.