• "The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
  
  - Kin Hubbard

• "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
  
  -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

• I hope to break even this week. I need the money.
  
  -VETERAN LAS VEGAS GAMBLER

• "Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a lifetime, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."
  
  -Mark Twain

• "The only difference between a winner and a loser is character."
  
  - Nick the Greek

• "It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck."
  
  - Joseph Conrad

• "We got an education when in 1992 Wolfgang Puck opened Spago in the Forum Shops in Caesars Palace and proved to us that people will line up to get good food."
  
  -Steve Wynn

• "But, Steve, if you bring back a $3.49 prime rib buffet, you'll have lines out the casino front door and down Las Vegas Blvd."
  
  -Mark Pilarski

• This quote crossed my desk this week from a reader. Those of you with the same passion and affliction for betting motor sports as I might enjoy it.
  "Race fans, I had inferred from my one trip to the Brickyard 400, fell into one of two categories: tattooed, shirtless, sewer-mouthed drunks, and their husbands."
  
  - Steve Ruchin, Sports Illustrated
  

• "I believe in luck. How else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
  
  -Jean Cocteau

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