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.
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Everything in life is luck.
All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.
As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
I'm a registered Republican. I'm a pretty conservative guy. I'm somewhat liberal on social issues, especially health care, et cetera, but I'd be leaving another party, and I've been close to that party … I think that nobody is really hitting it right. The Democrats are too far left. I mean, Bill Bradley, this is seriously left; he's trying to come a little more center, but he's seriously left. The Republicans are too far right. And I don't think anybody's hitting the chord, not the chord that I want hear, and not the chord that other people want to hear, and I've seen it.
- Donald Trump, October 1999
Mr. TRUMP: If you could tell me that the bad guys, the criminals, wouldn't have guns, I'd be a hundred percent for gun control. But the fact is, if you have gun control, the only people that are going to obey the laws, are going to be the good guys. So the bad guys are going to have the guns, the good guys aren't going to have the guns, and what good does that do us? So, I'm not in favor of it.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
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When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
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“You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”
“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”
On exporting goods to China: "Listen you m—–f——, we're going to tax you 25 percent!"
“When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let's say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time.”
"Let me just tell you about the lenders… These lenders aren't babies, these are total killers - these are not the sweet nice little people that you think, okay?"
"Ya know? You're living in the land of the make-believe."
"I left Atlantic City before it cratered, and I'm very proud of it… And by the way: This country, right now, owes 19 TRILLION dollars, and they need someone like me to straighten out that mess."