Donald Trump

My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person

You must go forth into the world, with passion, courage in your conviction, and most importantly be true to yourself. I did it!

This is serious business. But it doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun along the way.

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

The line of ‘Make America great again,’ the phrase, that was mine, I came up with it about a year ago, and I kept using it, and everybody’s using it, they are all loving it. I don’t know, I guess I should copyright it, maybe I have copyrighted it.

When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

[On being partners with Laura Nyro in Tuna Fish Music (Laura’s favorite food was Tuna Fish)] We became partners in this new publishing company.

Good copy can’t be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You’ve got to believe in the product.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don’t live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don’t be an automaton.

What right have you, save service to the world, to think that other men’s labor should contribute to your gains?

See what a 25-cent raise will do to us, said Mr. Ford. So they figured the daily and monthly cost of a 25-cent increase. Put on another quarter and see what that will cost, he said. And so they went on, 25 cents a step. Finally the wage of $2.34 stood at $4.75–more than 100 percent increase. One of the associates–a good financial head–remarked rather sarcastically that if they were going to be fools, why not be first-class fools and make it $5. All right, said Mr. Ford, let’s make it $5.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

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

Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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.

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

[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.

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.