Donald Trump

I’d be the world’s worst drinker!

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.

I’ve read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I’ve made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.

It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money and that you’ve employed a lot of people.

I have learned that what is essential can sometimes be invisible to the eye. That’s where discernment comes in.

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

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your own family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out — either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don’t think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

In the Ford Motor Company we emphasize service equally with sales.

[on Steve jobs] Our relationship was based almost always on him calling up and asking, ‘Is this a good deal?’ I’m not in his business, and I wasn’t trying to be. I was just a guy who admired him a lot and was flattered he wanted my advice.

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.

If you change anything about the way you approach selling, the thing that would make the biggest difference would be your attitude, your attitude toward your customer, your service, the benefits of your products, your employer, and yourself.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.

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

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

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.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice – in giving a failure another chance.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I’m just hard-working and pragmatic.

Your business, and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them.