The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.
I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.
I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.
I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.
I work a lot, and not just in Las Vegas.
We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.
Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.
There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.
Wall Street has become a veritable casino.
What makes San Francisco work is that high-value people like to live there and cluster.