Donald Trump

Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

To be blunt, people would vote for me. They just would. Why? Maybe because I’m so good looking.

An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

I addressed directly with President Putin the issue of Russian interference in our elections. I felt this was a message best delivered in person. Spent a great deal of time talking about it. And President Putin may very well want to address it, and very strongly, because he feels very strongly about it, and he has an interesting idea.

It doesn’t hurt to get more education.

I’m not looking to be a personal manager.

When you are in real estate, you are going to make some mistakes.

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

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.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. With one foot in the land, human society is firmly balanced against most economic uncertainties. With a job to supply him with cash, and a plot of land to guarantee him support, the individual is doubly secure. Stocks may fail, but seedtime and harvest do not fail.

Did I have a problem with lying to get the job? None whatsoever.

We decided not to show One Hyde Park til we were 100% ready. A lot of people open the doors too early.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

[On Laura Nyro] I said to Laura ‘You know Laura, I think we should sell your music publishing company. I think right now is the right time you have three songs in the top ten this may never happen again and I think we can get a lot of money for it.’ And I made a deal with Clive Davis to sell Tuna Fish Music for $4 million. And that was a hell of a lot of money in 1969. It made her famous, it made her rich. It got people to listen to her music with her singing.

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