Success Quote by Steve Wynn

It is a deceptively humble line that smuggles in a whole ideology: the world isn’t happening to you; you’re participating in its failure. Coming from Steve Wynn - a builder of spectacle and a salesman of experience - the traffic jam becomes a perfect metaphor for modern inconvenience as self-inflicted. You chose the car, the suburb, the timing, the lifestyle designed around private convenience, and then you act surprised when private convenience scales into public gridlock. The sentence flips the usual script of grievance culture: the villain isn’t the city, the mayor, or “other drivers.” It’s you, because you are the traffic.

The intent reads as both personal discipline and social critique. On one level, it’s a businessman’s creed in miniature: take responsibility, stop whining, optimize your choices. On another, it’s a neat rebuke to the consumer mindset that treats comfort as an entitlement and delay as an outrage. Wynn’s casinos famously manufacture frictionless movement - from valet to lobby to table - so his impatience with bottlenecks carries professional DNA. He understands that flows can be designed, but also that crowds are the price of anything popular.

The subtext is slightly smug, and that’s part of why it works: it dares you to admit complicity. It’s not an argument for stoic acceptance so much as a reminder that many “systems” are just aggregated personal decisions, and complaining is often an attempt to outsource guilt for choices we keep making.