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" If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself. "
Steve Wynn
Blame
Traffic
Myself
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" Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people. "
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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? "
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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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" I thrive in competitive environments. I've never been in a monopoly. "
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" People that create jobs create tax payers, which benefits society as a whole. "
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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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" This is what you need to do in a luxury business: look for people who will like being there every day. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things. "
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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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" 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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" I went public in 2002 in America, and do you know what Wall Street valued my concession in Macau at? Zero. "
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Zero
You
" Anyone can make things that are beautiful; we need to make things that are remarkable. "
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" I am a self-made brat. "
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" Posturing is counterproductive. Posturing only works if things are screwed up. "
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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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" I don't play computer games. What I do is yell at my secretary and say, 'Go on the Internet, and find this or that.' "
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Internet
" Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical. "
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Gambling
Colorful
" We never know what the Street is going to do with the funky trading. "
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" I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption. "
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Animals
" 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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" The pent-up demand for the good life in China is extraordinary. "
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" Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington. "
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" Change is not threatening. "
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" Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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