Donald Trump

I don’t think I’ve made mistakes. Every time somebody said I made a mistake, they do the polls and my numbers go up, so I guess I haven’t made any mistakes.

That if you try once, you should try again. Keep that focus exactly where it should be-on winning.

The successful entrepreneur’s unique ability to turn trying times into triumphs.

If I were running ‘The View’, I’d fire Rosie O’Donnell. I mean, I’d look at her right in that fat, ugly face of hers, I’d say ‘Rosie, you’re fired.’

The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

The concept of shaking hands is absolutely terrible, and statistically I’ve been proven right.

I believe that any stock that is sold should have real value as automobile or bushel of potatoes, and stock market should be run as a vegetable market.

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.

If you find out what men want and give them that, you are pleasing them. If you find out what is good for them and give them that, you are performing a service. That’s what we are trying to do.

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.

I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

No human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient [for] the duty of superintending the industry of private people … towards the employment most suitable to the interest of the society.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

We’ve created a recognisable brand that has the ability to be the Louis Vuitton of our era.

I get my design inspiration from Christian Dior and Chanel.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Our clients pay for value. London is the top city in the world, the best tax haven in the world for some and the top residential site in the city is One Hyde Park at the top end of Sloane Street.

The more predictable the business, the more valuable it is.

My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.