Barry Sternlicht
Barry Sternlicht
Barry Stuart Sternlicht is the founder, chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, the private investment firm focused on global real estate, energy, infrastructure and securities trading. He is also chairman of Starwood Property Trust, now the largest commercial mortgage REIT in the United States traded on the NYSE and Chairman of SWAY. He previously formed Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide and served as its CEO from 1995 to 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth27 November 1960
CountryUnited States of America
If the market feels it's a coin-toss, we'll have to do something to make it not seem like a coin-toss,
I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.
Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.
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.
We are going to make each hotel obscenely rich and obscenely beautiful and position them at the top off their markets.