Quotes by Steve Wynn

About Steve Wynn:

Stephen Alan "Steve" Wynn is an American business magnate known for his involvement in the 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 Strip in the 1990s. In 2000, Wynn sold his company Mirage Resorts to MGM Grand, resulting in the formation of MGM Mirage. Wynn afterwards took his company Wynn Resorts public in an initial public offering, and he remains Wynn Resorts' CEO and Chairman of the Board.
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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.

Steve Wynn

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.

Steve Wynn

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

Steve Wynn

Washington is unpredictable these days.

Steve Wynn

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...

Steve Wynn

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

Steve Wynn

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

Steve Wynn

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.

Steve Wynn

I am a self-made brat.

Steve Wynn

I'll trade glib for common sense any day.

Steve Wynn

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'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.

Steve Wynn

Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical.

Steve Wynn

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

Steve Wynn

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.

Steve Wynn

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

Steve Wynn

I've become an animal rights activist.

Steve Wynn

I've changed my will to show my concern for animal rights.

Steve Wynn

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.

Steve Wynn

I'm killing two birds at once, so to speak. Animal-based food kills people. This way, by going vegan... we get healthy and save animals. I'm being selfish, too, because if I can get my employees healthier, we cut down on sick days and gain more produ...

Steve Wynn

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...

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Author Bio

  • NameSteve Wynn
  • DescriptionAmerican business magnate
  • BornJanuary 27, 1942
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur