Steve Wynn

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.

I'll trade glib for common sense any day.

'Le Reve' may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

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

I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs.

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.

I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

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

Rich people only like being around rich people.

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 am a self-made brat.

Remember that the Communist Party is a meritocracy in China.

Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.

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.

The pent-up demand for the good life in China is extraordinary.

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.

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.

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.