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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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" 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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" Rich people only like being around rich people. "

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" This is what you need to do in a luxury business: look for people who will like being there every day. "

" I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net. "

" I went public in 2002 in America, and do you know what Wall Street valued my concession in Macau at? Zero. "

" I thrive in competitive environments. I've never been in a monopoly. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Remember that the Communist Party is a meritocracy in China. "

" 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. "

" Posturing is counterproductive. Posturing only works if things are screwed up. "

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" Managing China is a daunting task, and they've got smart people doing it. "

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

" Anyone can make things that are beautiful; we need to make things that are remarkable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Keep a strong balance sheet, don't get over-leveraged, and try to protect the security of your employees. "

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

" I've become an animal rights activist. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical. "

" You need to build a place that is a touristic destination that brings in people from outside the region. "

" We never know what the Street is going to do with the funky trading. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Keeping customers is about the experience, and the employees control the culture and temperature of the business. Never forget that. "