Words matter. These are the best Steve Wynn Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.
I have very little respect for the integrity of the trading on the exchange in most stocks. And I have particular disdain for the fact that the SEC has failed to deal with high-frequency traders who are doing nothing more than taking advantage of inside information, a buy or a sell order, because of technology advantages.
The government of Macau, of China, has been empirical and pragmatic and has brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, a feat unequaled in the history of civilization in any country.
Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.
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.
Change is not threatening.
What excites me the most is working on new projects.
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.
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.
In business or in life, focus on the things over which you do have some control. And don’t fret about all the other problems. Most of the time, they don’t come true anyway!
Capital structure isn’t an eyeshade economic thing: It’s about your ability to protect your workforce and your service levels.
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.
Posturing is counterproductive. Posturing only works if things are screwed up.
Most people I know that are successful have a few things in common that are undeniable: driving ambition, and they have applied that to something they’re good at, that they love doing… and they are fun to be around, especially when they’re talking about their passion.
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.
This is what you need to do in a luxury business: look for people who will like being there every day.
Managing China is a daunting task, and they’ve got smart people doing it.
You need to build a place that is a touristic destination that brings in people from outside the region.
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.
The greatest thing that ever happened to me in my life was being allowed to do business in Macau and in China. I love it here. It has been the greatest single event in my commercial career. Period.
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.
I’m not a daredevil. I don’t fly without a safety net.
It’s very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar.
I am so focused on the fact that the conversation doesn’t address any of the things I think are important. I think our political dialogue in America is distorted and completely off track.
Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They’re mollycoddled; they’re highly privileged.
Someone who will take responsibility for the real welfare of the American people, to be honest with them. I’d like to have that adult in the room.
Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people.
Nevada Energy doesn’t lose money. The gaming industry loses money. It employs all the people. It pays all the taxes. And if you take the P&L, the profit and loss, of the hotels in Las Vegas and Reno, it is a number that is minus, not plus, minus.
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.
You can’t discuss Macau in any logical conversation. It will distort any reality.
Keep a strong balance sheet, don’t get over-leveraged, and try to protect the security of your employees.
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.
Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical.
I can’t stand the idea of being demagogued: that is, put down by a president who has never created any jobs and who doesn’t even understand how the economy works.
If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself.
Guys like me are job creators, and we don’t like having a bulls-eye painted on our back.
Donald calls me and asks me what I think. Very often I will answer him, but Donald Trump is his own adviser. He is his own campaign manager.
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.
In the last 680 million years of the four and a half billion that this planet has existed, life has been determined by two principal forces: the warmth and the diffused energy of the sunlight coming through our atmosphere, and water. Those are the primordial forces of life – sunlight and water.
Money is a way of expressing no compromise.
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?
I think, generally, the folks from mainland China have more positive feelings about the government here in many cases than the average Americans feel about their government.
Other people’s successes are good news – for them and for you. Good for you because they show you a way to go.
Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.
