Quotes by Steve Wynn - Page 2

I always wanted to meet Nelson Mandela, and I have friends who knew him, but I didn't get to meet Mandela. I always thought he was a spectacular character.
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Nelson
Spectacular
Mandela
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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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Security
Customer
Forgets
Job Security
Joint
Lay
Minute
Worries
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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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Frightening
Recovery
Uncertainty
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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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Attitude
Different Attitude
Hedonistic
Sensual
Sitting
This Generation
Generation
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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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Civilization
Human Being
Increased
Standard
Simple Truth
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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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Achievement
Clutter
Static
Aside
Push
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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.
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Another Way
Basics
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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!
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Life Time Business
Anyway
Fret
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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.
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Average
Cases
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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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Better Person
Me Better Person
Losers
Her
Met
She
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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.
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Dialogue
Track
Distorted
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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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Opportunity
China
Gratitude
Irresponsible
Response
Ridiculous
Simple
Nothing
Had
Any
Here
Lie
Would
Owe
Other
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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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Colleagues
Damn
Good Times
Implications
Organization
Paid
Short Term
Fair
Hotels
Market
Professionals
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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.
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Pragmatic
History Government People
Empirical
Feat
Hundreds
Millions Of People
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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.
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Life Love Business
Event
Greatest Thing
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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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Discussion
Fair Share
Hypocritical
Intelligent
Not Talking
Politician
Propaganda
Taxes
Paying
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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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Finance
Debt
Federal Reserve
Implications
Loss
Normal
Treasury
Month
Bonds
Buys
Citizen
Explain
Federal
Reserve
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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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Another Way
Basics
Daredevil
Safety
Safety Net
Forces
Net
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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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Bottom
Infection
Disc
Zipper
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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.
Steve Wynn /
Dance
Allure
Animated
Intrigue
Mystery
Pirate
Powerful
Presentation
Strong
Device
Ship
Taunt
Volcano
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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.
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Gaming
Industry
Las Vegas
Loses
Minus
Nevada
Plus
Profit
Taxes
Vegas
Employs
Number
Hotels
Pays
Reno
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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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Leadership
Congress
Debt
Debt Ceiling
Fixed
Steps
Both Parties
Ceiling
Total
Parties
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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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Being Selfish
Productivity
Selfish
Sick
Food People Way
Employees
Gain
Healthier
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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?
Steve Wynn /
College
Died
Law School
March
Senior
Senior Year
Sitting
Surgery
Waiting
Worst
Doctor
Room
Possible Thing
Walked
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We recruit our people for personality. We look for the people person, with innate warmth, sweetness, and intelligence. These are the people who are sending your message out to the customers and potential customers, so we recruit for personality first and foremost.
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Customers
Innate
Recruit
Sweetness
Warmth
For The People
Message
Our People
People Person
Sending
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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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Frightened
Sitting
Thumbs
Business Community
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Republicans
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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.
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Ambition
Applied
Few Things
Undeniable
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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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Attacking
Business Opportunities
Capital
Opportunities
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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.
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Atmosphere
Determined
Sunlight
Warmth
Billion
Existed
Million Years
Primordial
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I say don't overreact; cool your jets. Focus on things that you can control: your business, your employees' welfare, your guests, and the quality of the product that you dish up. Do that, keep your chin down, pay attention to business, and the sun will come up tomorrow. That's the way I figure it.
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Guests
Pay Attention
Sun
Tomorrow
Welfare
Chin
Dish
Employees
Jets
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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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Discipline
Enterprise
Jeopardize
Protect
Take Care
Wasteful
Employees
Grips
Squander
Therefore
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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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Ought
Pure
Businesses
Invest
Holding
Redistribution
Socialists
Speeches
Too Much Money
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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.
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Respect
Technology
Advantage
Disdain
Information
Integrity
Order
Particular
Taking Advantage
Trading
Little
Inside
Doing
Buy
Exchange
Deal
Failed
Sell
Fact
Sec
Stocks
Taking
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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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Amount
Beans
Destination
Endurance
Jazz
Longevity
One Thing
Established
Clearly
Customer
Determines
Enterprises
Everything Else
Facilities
Hear
Hill
Resort
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