Steve Wynn
Steve Wynn
Stephen Alan "Steve" Wynnis an American businessman and art collector. He is well known for his involvement in the American luxury casino and hotel industry. Early in his career he oversaw the construction and operation of several historically notable Las Vegas and Atlantic City hotels, including the Golden Nugget, the Golden Nugget Atlantic City, The Mirage, Treasure Island, the Bellagio, and Beau Rivage in Mississippi, and he played a pivotal role in the resurgence and expansion of the Las Vegas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth27 January 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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.
My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We're professionals. That's what we do. I don't give a damn about the short-term market implications.
Here we start with one question. 'Who are these people and what do they want?' The answer controls everything we do. We respond to the emotional and psychological desires of our visitors. If this place has any other redeeming feature, I don't know what it is.
He seems to define himself all the time by saying 'better than Steve Wynn,' or 'better than the Mirage.' We, at first, were amused by this and ignored him.
I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.
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.
Let a real sun shine inside and burn away our sins! Fear not the actual time of day!
'Le Reve' may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.
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 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.
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?
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.
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.
This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.