Barry Sternlicht quotes:

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.

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

The American dream is still to own your home.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.

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

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