Donald Trump
771 quotes
Biography
"Everything in life is luck."
"My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose."
"It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate."
"Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money."
"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."
"You have to think anyway, so why not think big?"
"What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate."
"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war."
"I said, 'I will build you this incredible, gorgeous, gleaming hotel. I will put people to work in the construction trades and save hotel jobs and the Grand Central area will come around.' So the city made the deal."
"Give them the old Trump bullshit," he told the architect Der Scutt before a presentation of the Trump Tower design at a press conference in 1980. "Tell them it is going to be a million square feet, sixty-eight stories."
"Some people have an ability to negotiate. It's an art you're basically born with. You either have it or you don't."
"It would take an hour-and-a-half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles. I think I know most of it anyway. You're talking about just getting updated on a situation"
"I have featured and will always continue to feature my name prominently in all my enterprises."
"I look at things for the art sake and the beauty sake and for the deal sake."
"I'm not big on compromise. I understand compromise. Sometimes compromise is the right answer, but oftentimes compromise is the equivalent of defeat, and I don't like being defeated."
"Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so."
"How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? Criminals must be told that their CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS!"
"Let our politicians give back our police department's power to keep us safe. Unshackle them from the constant chant of "police brutality" which every petty criminal hurls immediately at an officer who has just risked his or her life to save another's."
"Of course I hate these people and let's all hate these people because maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done."
"I like to hire people that I've seen in action. I often hire people that were on the opposing side of a deal that I respect."
"I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it's literally going to cease to exist."
"I don't do it for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form."
"I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. 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."
"I'm a great believer in asking everyone for an opinion before I make a decision. ... I ask and I ask and I ask, until I begin to get a gut feeling about something. And that's when I make a decision. I have learned much more from conducting my own random surveys than I could ever have learned from the greatest of consulting firms."
"You can't con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don't deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on."