Barry Sternlicht
Barry Sternlicht
Barry Stuart Sternlicht is the founder, chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, the private investment firm focused on global real estate, energy, infrastructure and securities trading. He is also chairman of Starwood Property Trust, now the largest commercial mortgage REIT in the United States traded on the NYSE and Chairman of SWAY. He previously formed Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide and served as its CEO from 1995 to 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth27 November 1960
CountryUnited States of America
If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.
I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.
You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.
You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.
We have an impact on nature, and nature has an impact on us.
Today, when you're marketing a brand, you can't try to appeal to everybody. You should speak to a group of people and create them as loyalists.
There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.
There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.
The American dream is still to own your home.
Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.
I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.