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" 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
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" 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. "
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Support
Business
" Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy. "
Steve Wynn
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Happy
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" 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. "
Steve Wynn
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Life
Sunlight
" 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. "
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Hands
Stop
Government
" 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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Money
Need
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
God
America
Business
" I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net. "
Steve Wynn
Fly
Daredevil
Net
" I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things. "
Steve Wynn
View
Long
Me
" Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical. "
Steve Wynn
Dramatic
Gambling
Colorful
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
People
Personality
Intelligence
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Truth
Government
History
" Keep a strong balance sheet, don't get over-leveraged, and try to protect the security of your employees. "
Steve Wynn
Strong
Employees
Balance
" You need to build a place that is a touristic destination that brings in people from outside the region. "
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Place
Need
Destination
" Keeping customers is about the experience, and the employees control the culture and temperature of the business. Never forget that. "
Steve Wynn
Culture
Experience
Business
" Remember that the Communist Party is a meritocracy in China. "
Steve Wynn
China
Communist
Party
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Focus
Business
Cool
" I love being part of the Chinese scene as a businessman. That doesn't mean that there aren't short-term discomforts and adjustments. "
Steve Wynn
Mean
Chinese
Businessman
" I can't stand the idea of being demagogued: that is, put down by a president who has never created any jobs and who doesn't even understand how the economy works. "
Steve Wynn
Economy
Down
Stand
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Music
You
Achievement
" We never know what the Street is going to do with the funky trading. "
Steve Wynn
Know
Funky
Never
" 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
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Money
People
Energy
" Money is a way of expressing no compromise. "
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Expressing
Money
Compromise
" I am a self-made brat. "
Steve Wynn
Self-Made
Brat
Am
" 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
" I am so focused on the fact that the conversation doesn't address any of the things I think are important. I think our political dialogue in America is distorted and completely off track. "
Steve Wynn
Think
America
Focused
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
People
Honest
American
" 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
" 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. "
Steve Wynn
Character
Him
Meet
" 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