Steve Wynn Quotes

I am a self-made brat.

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.

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.

I've become an animal rights activist.

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.

Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.

Other people's successes are good news - for them and for you. Good for you because they show you a way to go.

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.

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.

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

The pent-up demand for the good life in China is extraordinary.

If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself.

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.

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.

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.

I've changed my will to show my concern for animal rights.

'Le Reve' may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.

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.

Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy.

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.

I'm a job creator.

I'll trade glib for common sense any day.

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.