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" It's very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar. "

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" Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth. "

" Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Rich people only like being around rich people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What excites me the most is working on new projects. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Someone who will take responsibility for the real welfare of the American people, to be honest with them. I'd like to have that adult in the room. "

" 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. "

" Change is not threatening. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "