Quotes from Steve Wynn

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.

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.

You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.

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

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.

I'll trade glib for common sense any day.

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

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.

If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself.

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

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.

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.'

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.

Las Vegas is sort of like how God would do it if he had money.

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.

You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.

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.

This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.

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

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 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.

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

Did we not all grow up saying we had to have four glasses of whole milk a day for healthy bones? It's ridiculous. It's liquid cholesterol.

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