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Notable quotes

“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
— Ambrose Bierce, in Cosmopolitan (1905), Vol. 38, p. 444.
“Gambling is risk-taking. It might be said the owner of a casino gambles, takes risks, but he has the odds in his favour, so that's intelligent gambling. If I wanted to gamble, I'd buy the casino.”
— Jean Paul Getty, Sr. (1892–1976), American oil tycoon. From his 1963 interview with Alan Whicker, as quoted in Whicker's book, Within Whicker's World', Part V. 'Sutton Place: The Rosebud of Citizen Getty' (1982).
“It matters more when there's money on it.”
— advertising slogan quoted in: "‘It matters more when there is money on it’ is a dangerous indoctrination", The Guardian (Jan 23, 2018)
“When you're betting and you win, naturally you have that satisfaction, and the profit.”
— George Soros, from an interview with Niall Ferguson, in the Channel 4 television series, The Ascent of Money, broadcast on 22 December 2008.
“I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me—gamester.”
— Edward Moore, The Gamester, Act II, scene 1.
“It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.”
— George Washington, letter to Bushrod Washington (Jan. 15, 1783).

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