Donald Trump

Kim Jong-un speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.

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

It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money and that you’ve employed a lot of people.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

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

A great leader has to be flexible, holding his ground on the major principles but finding room for compromises that can bring people together. A great leader has to be savvy at negotiations so we don’t drown every bill in pork barrel bridges to nowhere. I know how to stand my ground – but I also know that Republicans and Democrats need to find common ground to stand on as well.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

In the long run people are going to buy the cheapest and the best article no matter where it is made.

Should I give up my career at this point in my life… and put all my marbles in Laura’s [Nyro] basket?

My advice to budding property developers: do it on the cheap and you’ll get a cheap price. Don’t avoid putting in skirting just because it’s hidden by a sofa.

The golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place.

Asking me to come work here is the dumbest idea you ever had. It has been a waste of a year.

We started learning ourselves, understanding ourselves, reading, researching, going around the world and looking at what was defined as the very best.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I’m very proud of the job I did.

…capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.

See what a 25-cent raise will do to us, said Mr. Ford. So they figured the daily and monthly cost of a 25-cent increase. Put on another quarter and see what that will cost, he said. And so they went on, 25 cents a step. Finally the wage of $2.34 stood at $4.75–more than 100 percent increase. One of the associates–a good financial head–remarked rather sarcastically that if they were going to be fools, why not be first-class fools and make it $5. All right, said Mr. Ford, let’s make it $5.

[on Steve jobs] Our relationship was based almost always on him calling up and asking, ‘Is this a good deal?’ I’m not in his business, and I wasn’t trying to be. I was just a guy who admired him a lot and was flattered he wanted my advice.

I get my design inspiration from Christian Dior and Chanel.