Steve Wynn Quotes

Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty.

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

Uncertainty is killing this economy.

There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment.

Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death.

Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.

I'm scared about every dollar that comes into my business. I'm scared about what that means in Obamacare, in taxes. Every single thing that is happening to me is out of my control.

Markets don't like instability, investors shy away from uncertainty, and consumer confidence goes down in difficult times.

Uncertainty is bad for business.

The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.

There isn't a single business where anybody feels secure.

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

What I see in the corporate sector is very clearly an issue of a major shortfall in the issue of, what some people call confidence, but whatever you want to call it. Clearly people are looking out in the very distant future and they are saying that it is too complex.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

I think it is only natural that people have anxiety about the economy because the economy is real. It is their job, their ability to service their mortgage and look after their family. And in the final analysis, nothing is more important than your capacity as a breadwinner or an earner to provide for those that rely on you.

Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

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.

The fate of your paycheck, the fate of your small business should not rest on what side of the bed a Washington bureaucrat wakes up on.

I would rather deal with the vagaries of investing in Africa than in figuring out what the hell else Washington is going to do to the entrepreneur next.