Donald Trump

First and foremost, I’m a real estate person. And that’s what I love the most.

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.

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

She does have a very nice figure… If [Ivanka] weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.

We will follow two simple rules: Buy American and hire American.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

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

If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.

[In 1990 on the president of MCA calling and saying ‘We’re going to make you the biggest offer this company has ever made, and I’m going to send it to you by messenger right now.’] It’s 1990. Send me a fax.

I have had the top people in the world into One Hyde Park, and they have seen everything and they say there is nothing quite like this.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member’s talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

I get my design inspiration from Christian Dior and Chanel.

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.

As members of the Ford Motor organization we are engaged in the production of an article of use for the people of all countries. Our principle is to make our work as profitable for the buyer as for the seller.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

No one loses anything by raising wages as soon as he is able. It has always paid us. Low wages are the most costly any employer can pay. It is like using low-grade material–the waste makes it very expensive in the end. There is no economy in cheap labor or cheap material. The hardest thing I ever had to do was to reduce wages. I think we were the last big company to come to it. Now I am mighty glad that wages are climbing again.

You can’t do this! We have an arrangement! We have a contract!