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" The minute you do any layoffs, you might as well lay off the whole joint because everybody forgets about the customer and worries about their job security. "
Steve Wynn
Customer
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Off
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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 I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Posturing is counterproductive. Posturing only works if things are screwed up. "
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" What excites me the most is working on new projects. "
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" I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net. "
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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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" Washington is unpredictable these days. "
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" I've changed my will to show my concern for animal rights. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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. "
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" Managing China is a daunting task, and they've got smart people doing it. "
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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. "
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" I thrive in competitive environments. I've never been in a monopoly. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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