Barry Sternlicht Quotes

#1. I think that every single person should play sports.

Donovan Bailey

#2. I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.

Barry Sternlicht

#3. I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.

Barry Sternlicht

#4. We have an impact on nature, and nature has an impact on us.

Barry Sternlicht

#5. 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.

Barry Sternlicht

#6. That's right. He was smacking his lips a little, that's all." "He was smacking his lips a little?" "Well, yes." Kinderman

William Peter Blatty

#7. You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.

Barry Sternlicht

#8. I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

Martin Firrell

#9. 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.

Barry Sternlicht

#10. Who is the daughter of God?

Madelaine Standing

#11. Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

Barry Sternlicht

#12. Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight perfectly for the future.

Barry Sternlicht

#13. If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

Barry Sternlicht

#14. I don't really plan. I just see what happens.

Ruth Wilson

#15. You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.

Will Rogers

#16. No obligation. Nor any restriction or limitation, nor any guidelines or rules. Nor are you bound by any circumstances or situations, nor constrained by any Code or law. Nor are you punishable for any offense, nor capable of any-for there is no such thing as being "offensive" in the eyes of God.

Neale Donald Walsch

#17. 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.

Barry Sternlicht

#18. Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.

Barry Sternlicht

#19. I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.

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#20. It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.

Barry Sternlicht

#21. You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

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#22. 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.

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#23. It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.

Barry Sternlicht

#24. I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.

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#25. There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.

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#26. I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

Spike Lee

#27. I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.

Barry Sternlicht

#28. As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

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#29. The American dream is still to own your home.

Barry Sternlicht

#30. The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.

Barry Sternlicht

#31. I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

Barry Sternlicht

#32. N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use.

Caryl Parker Haskins

#33. I would love to be a grinder on some race yacht.

Dhani Jones

#34. We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole time. Then I do a rough layout of the issue, showing what happens on each page. Then we discuss that some more.

Phil Foglio