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" I went public in 2002 in America, and do you know what Wall Street valued my concession in Macau at? Zero. "
Steve Wynn
America
Zero
You
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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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You
Achievement
" 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
Political
Say
" 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
Myself
School
" I've changed my will to show my concern for animal rights. "
Steve Wynn
Rights
Concern
Show
" We never know what the Street is going to do with the funky trading. "
Steve Wynn
Know
Funky
Never
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Boxes
Better
Big
" I'll trade glib for common sense any day. "
Steve Wynn
Trade
Common
Common Sense
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Political
Best
Vegas
" 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! "
Steve Wynn
Life
Time
Focus
" It's very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar. "
Steve Wynn
Difficult
America
Class
" You need to build a place that is a touristic destination that brings in people from outside the region. "
Steve Wynn
Place
Need
Destination
" Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged. "
Steve Wynn
People
Like
Live
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Donald Trump
Manager
Me
" Rich people only like being around rich people. "
Steve Wynn
People
Like
Only
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Death
Support
Business
" Guys like me are job creators, and we don't like having a bulls-eye painted on our back. "
Steve Wynn
Back
Our
Me
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Business
Uncertainty
America
" I am a self-made brat. "
Steve Wynn
Self-Made
Brat
Am
" Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical. "
Steve Wynn
Dramatic
Gambling
Colorful
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Run
People
Discipline
" Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth. "
Steve Wynn
Simple
Truth
Keep
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Respect
Integrity
Doing
" Posturing is counterproductive. Posturing only works if things are screwed up. "
Steve Wynn
Works
Only
Up
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Grow
Up
Glasses
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Better Person
She
Better
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Know
Business
Destination
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Government
Money
Need
" Capital structure isn't an eyeshade economic thing: It's about your ability to protect your workforce and your service levels. "
Steve Wynn
Structure
Ability
Protect
" This is what you need to do in a luxury business: look for people who will like being there every day. "
Steve Wynn
Luxury
Day
Business
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Hands
Stop
Government