Kirk Kerkorian Quotes

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If economists were good in business, they would be rich men, instead of experts advising rich men.
If economists were any good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.
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[At age 92] I like to stay busy and I stay in pretty good shape. [Still going strong at 95]
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I don’t like to get dressed up and go to see bankers.
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I think it’s better to keep your business private.
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There was a time I was aiming at $100,000. Then I thought I’d have it made if I got a million dollars. Now it isn’t the money.
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I never had a master plan for my life. I’ve just been tremendously fortunate.
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[On Las Vegas in the 1950s and 1960s] We always felt that Las Vegas had a great future. People [lending institutions] didn’t want to push it because it was gambling.
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[On the ‘equal’ merger of Daimler Chrysler] We were lied to!
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[On not being emotionally connected to his possessions and investments] I’m not married to anything.
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I’ve been pretty lucky.
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Everything went really fast for me. All my life it’s been that way.
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I’ve dealt very honestly with people and it’s up to everybody with their own intelligence to work things out.
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I’ve been in a lot of different businesses. My main business that got me started was airplanes.
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I flew for the U.S. Air Force with the RAF (Royal Air Force) and they paid me big money for those years [World War II years] to take airplanes and fly them across the North Atlantic, which wasn’t flyable.
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I had $10,000 to my name, a car, no home, a wife and that’s all I had.
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After the war I bought myself an airplane.
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I went and got a job with the British flying airplanes over the Atlantic at a very important time during the war.
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[On no longer flying himself at age 92] My mind is too occupied to be a pilot anymore.
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I’m basically a really shy guy.
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I don’t like to get up and say if you do this or that you’ll make it.
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I don’t say much about how to be successful; I could be wrong. I don’t want to tell anybody wrong things.
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I guess I know what I want and the other side knows what they want and you put your cards on the table.
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Fortunately I’ve been successful at almost every area I went into. Probably a lot of luck.
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I don’t claim to have any mystique at all. I’ve been lucky and I work hard.
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My mother and father came as Armenian immigrants.
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I figure America has really been good to us. I like to give back.
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We have a vision!
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I think we’ll do alright.
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I’m pretty lucky and I have accomplished a lot.
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I'm not a firm believer, that you have to have 30 years of experience, if you've got good, common sense.
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An alligator rested on the riverbank, unmoving and invisible, watching small fish swim by. The alligator was hungry, but it didn’t go after the small fry. The creature waited so calmly that the river’s inhabitants became busy with their own interests and stopped noticing the alligator. After a long while, a particularly big, succulent-looking fish swam by. That’s when the beast opened its maw. The alligator gulped the big fish whole. I’d like to think, that we can be like the hungry alligator.
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[On the 1940s and 1950s when he flew charters from Los Angeles to Las Vegas] We were just trying to eat in those days, and parlay what we did have into something better.
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[On Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel in the late 1940s and 1950s] Siegel played big in those years.
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[On Howard Hughes] I met him on four different occasions. I liked him. He was a helluva guy. If you take him early in his career, he didn’t get the credit he deserves.
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My first love is as a professional pilot.
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[To a bystander on the groundbreaking for the MGM Grand Hotel] What good does it do being rich? I can’t do what I want to do. I don’t like to get dressed up and go to see bankers. I hate that kind of thing. You know, I don’t want to be here. I don’t want to be here right now.
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[On his MGM executives] We had a helluva team there. I went along with what the team thought.
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[His first question to a group of associates within hours after the fire was put out at the MGM Grand when most corporations would have abandoned the property] Where do we start?
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I had $10,000 to my name, a car, no home, a wife and that’s all I had. I was 28 years old so I took the airplane and flew charters to Las Vegas and from there I got interested in the hotel business.
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I bought out your friend Steve [Wynn] today. I never thought Steve would sell so low. [A couple of days later Steve called the same person saying ‘I never dreamed your friend Kirk would pay so much.’ –Steve Wynn]
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