Donald Trump

[The New York Times] don’t write good. They have people over there, like Maggie Haberman and others, they don’t – they don’t write good. They don’t know how to write good.

It’s next to impossible to build a successful business without relationships.

I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

Partnerships must have loyalty and integrity at their core.

I have tremendous respect for women.

I’d be the world’s worst drinker!

[To his ex-entertainment lawyer Eric Eisner who resigned from the presidency of The David Geffen Company in 1991 just as a deal was about to be made with some Japanese] Keep your stock. [Eric sold it.]

Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.

Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

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

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

I never insisted that I was a good student.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

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.

If the boss stands in the way of men getting what they earn, he is not fit to be boss.

I don’t hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don’t trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.

I really don’t retain information – by the time I arrive wherever I’m going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.