Steve Wynn

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Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy.
- Steve Wynn
Collection: Money
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Our government is printing money, and it's degrading the living standard of every person in America. It's the cause of frustration, anger, and confusion.
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Collection: Anger
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You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.
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Collection: Leadership
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It's very difficult to explain to a normal working citizen the implications of what $18 trillion in debt means and what it means when the Federal Reserve buys the U.S. Treasury bonds to finance our loss every month.
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Collection: Finance
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This generation... they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it - they're very hedonistic and sensual.
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Collection: Attitude
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Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical.
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Capital structure isn't an eyeshade economic thing: It's about your ability to protect your workforce and your service levels.
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My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?
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If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself.
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Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.
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We have nothing but gratitude for the opportunity we have had here, and any other response would be ridiculous, irresponsible and a lie. It is that simple. I owe China; China doesn't owe me.
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I want people to be transported by the hotel. I'm thinking, What is it that would make people be delighted and amazed?
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Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people.
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The minute you do any layoffs, you might as well lay off the whole joint because everybody forgets about the customer and worries about their job security.
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Did we not all grow up saying we had to have four glasses of whole milk a day for healthy bones? It's ridiculous. It's liquid cholesterol.
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What's the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful... It taunts you.
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What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it's all about one thing, and one thing only. All of the razzmatazz and jazz we hear about facilities and everything else doesn't amount to a hill of beans. It's customer experience that determines the longevity and endurance of these enterprises.
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I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.
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A lot of places in Las Vegas are big boxes of stuff. The hotels I've built have had, for lack of a better term, a soul.
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We never know what the Street is going to do with the funky trading.
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I'm a job creator.
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You can't discuss Macau in any logical conversation. It will distort any reality.
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I am a self-made brat.
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Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.
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And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the President. And a lot of people don't want to say that. They'll say, God, don't be attacking Obama. Well, this is Obama's deal and it's Obama that's responsible for this fear in America.
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I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs.
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The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.
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Washington is unpredictable these days.
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No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery.
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Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.
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We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop.
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This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.
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Change is not threatening.
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The most impressive person I've ever met? Elaine Wynn is no slouch. She's a much better person than me. But I've got her. Finders keepers, losers weepers. And it's been forty-seven years.
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Other people's successes are good news - for them and for you. Good for you because they show you a way to go.
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Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.
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If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people.
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'Le Reve' may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.
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I'll trade glib for common sense any day.
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Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.
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If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You're at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.
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My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We're professionals. That's what we do. I don't give a damn about the short-term market implications.
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The pent-up demand for the good life in China is extraordinary.
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I had a disc giving me a lot of trouble, and I had four surgeries. Then I had a staph infection, so they had to open me up five times in four months... It was in the bottom of my back, the same incision. They should have put a zipper on it.
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I'm killing two birds at once, so to speak. Animal-based food kills people. This way, by going vegan... we get healthy and save animals. I'm being selfish, too, because if I can get my employees healthier, we cut down on sick days and gain more productivity.
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I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.
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I've become an animal rights activist.
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I've changed my will to show my concern for animal rights.
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When you hear a politician say 'fair share,' you are talking about hypocritical political propaganda. You are not talking about an intelligent discussion of who is paying what and who isn't paying taxes.
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People that create jobs create tax payers, which benefits society as a whole.
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