Top 86 Quotes & Sayings by Steve Wynn - Page 2

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.

Capital structure isn't an eyeshade economic thing: It's about your ability to protect your workforce and your service levels.

What excites me the most is working on new projects.

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.

This is what you need to do in a luxury business: look for people who will like being there every day.

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.

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.

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.

Keep a strong balance sheet, don't get over-leveraged, and try to protect the security of your employees.

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or, to put it another way, you're at risk, and the people with you are at risk.

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.'

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

Guys like me are job creators, and we don't like having a bulls-eye painted on our back.

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.

Managing China is a daunting task, and they've got smart people doing it.

I love being part of the Chinese scene as a businessman. That doesn't mean that there aren't short-term discomforts and adjustments.

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

I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things.

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

Money is a way of expressing no compromise.

Remember that the Communist Party is a meritocracy in China.

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.

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.

Our government is printing money, and it's degrading the living standard of every person in America. It's the cause of frustration, anger, and confusion.

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.

Anyone can make things that are beautiful; we need to make things that are remarkable.