I apologize when I’m wrong.
Put it up for sale at an asking price of $25 million. I first looked at Mar-a-Lago while vacationing in Palm Beach in 1982. Almost immediately I put in a bid of $15 million, and it was promptly rejected. Over the next few years, the foundation signed contracts with several other buyers at higher prices than I’d offered, only to have them fall through before closing. Each time that happened, I put in another bid, but always at a lower sum than before. Finally, in late 1985, I put in a cash offer of $5 million, plus another $3 million for the furnishings in the house. Apparently, the foundation was tired of broken deals. They accepted my offer, and we closed one month later. The day the deal was announced, the Palm Beach Daily News ran a huge front-page story with the headline MAR-A-LAGO’S BARGAIN PRICE ROCKS COMMUNITY. Soon, several far more modest estates on property a fraction of Mar-a-Lago’s size sold for prices in excess of $18 million. I’ve been told that the furnishings in Mar-a-Lago alone are worth more than I paid for the house. It just goes to show that it pays to move quickly and decisively when the time is right.
Remember this: Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same courage to do what is right.
Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.
To be successful in the world of entrepreneurs, especially in the early stages, a person must learn to fail, correct, learn, apply what was learned, and fail again.
When you see the other side chopping off heads, waterboarding doesn’t sound very severe.
Unite to win. Divide to conquer.
Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.
I feel like I got a pile of cattle chasing my ass, and I’m pedaling as hard as I can to stay in front of em. I’m looking behind me driving like hell.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Leaders inspire. They aren’t assigned leadership. They command it.
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.
Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
The concept of shaking hands is absolutely terrible, and statistically I’ve been proven right.
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.
Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.
There is no man living who isnt capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
Not everything I write will be a masterpiece; I know that. It is a process selecting words to convey feelings never meant to be spoken. So maybe I’ve been searching for what’s already been said and this is the finest way I can say it. I love you, in everything I am, I love you.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
