Donald Trump quotes

“A brand is two words: the ‘Promise’ you telegraph, and the ‘Experience’ you deliver.”

“A tiny leak can sink a ship.”

“America is one of the few places in the world where a poor person can still be obese.”

“Building a brand may be more important than building a business.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.”

“Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.”

“Do not spend too much time planning or trying to anticipate and solve problems before they happen. That is just another kind of excuse for procrastination. Until you start, you won’t know where the problems will occur. You won’t have the experience to solve them. Instead, get into action, and solve the problems as they arise.”

“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.”

“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.”

“Good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.”

“I choose my teachers very carefully. I am extremely cautious of the people with whom I spend my time and to whom I listen.”

“I have a very simple rule when it comes to management: hire the best people from your competitors, pay them more than they were earning, and give them bonuses and incentives based on their performance. That’s how you build a first-class operation.”

“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is.”

“I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.”

“I’ve always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists.”

“If it can’t be fun, what’s the point?”

“If you have laws that you don't enforce, then you don't have laws. This leads to lawlessness.”

“In a lot of ways it is easier to do things on a large scale. It is easier to build a skyscraper in Manhattan than it is to buy a bungalow in the Bronx.”

“In the end, you are measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplished.”

“It doesn’t hurt to get more education.”

“It is easier to ask for money when you don’t need the money.”

“It pays to trust your instinct.”

“It’s next to impossible to build a successful business without relationships.”

“Learn something new every day.”

“Luck does not come around often. So when it does, be sure to take full advantage of it, even if it means working very hard. When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve. That is the true meaning of thinking big.”

“Make every day extraordinary no matter what your job is.”

“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.”

“Most people think small because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.”

“Much more often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.”

“Once you focus on your life’s objectives, you need to focus on your instructors to make sure they are qualified to teach you what you want to know. They should have already been where you want to go and have lived to tell about it.”

“One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.”

“One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people—I categorize them as life’s losers—who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves.”

“Politicians don’t care too much what things cost. It’s not their money.”

“Remember there’s no such thing as an unrealistic goal. Just unrealistic time frames.”

“Rules are meant to be broken.”

“Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.”

“Sometimes by losing a battle, you will find a new way to win the war.”

“Sometimes understanding other people’s problems is the key to finding opportunities.”

“Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”

“Stay confident even when something bad happens. It is just a bump in the road. It will pass.”

“Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.”

“The four-step formula for success:
1. Get in.
2. Get it done.
3. Get it done right.
4. And get out.”

“The main job of the entrepreneur is to define the mission, find and inspire the team, and lead.”

“The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work. What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take sixty percent or more of his extra pay? Any system that penalizes success and accomplishment is wrong. Any system that discourages work, discourages productivity, discourages economic progress, is wrong. If, on the other hand, you reduce tax rates and allow people to spend or save more of what they earn, they’ll be more industrious; they’ll have more incentive to work hard, and money they earn will add fuel to the great economic machine that energizes our national progress. The result: more prosperity for all—and more revenue for government.”

“The most important thing in life is to love what you’re doing, because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.”

“The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That’s what gives rise to dictators.”

“True leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.”

“Unite to win. Divide to conquer.”

“Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself… anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.”

“We must understand that governments cannot create real jobs. Only entrepreneurs can do that.”

“What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!”

“What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”

“When people are in a focused state, the words “I can’t,” “I’ll try,” “I’ll do it tomorrow,” and “maybe” get forced out of their vocabularies.”

“Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.”

“You can take the smartest kid who gets straight A’s and has a 170 IQ, and if he doesn’t have the instincts, he’ll never be a successful entrepreneur. Moreover, most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don’t have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential. Instead, they’ll be content to sit and watch stars perform on television.”

“You do your job, you keep your job. Do it well, you get a better job.”

“You don't reward failure by promoting those responsible for it, because all you get is more failure.”

“You have to think anyway, so why not think big?”

“You know what uranium is, right? It's this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things.”

“You know, it really doesn't matter what the media write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”

“You must work on improving your skills every day and never quit.”

“Your business, and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them.”