Donald Trump

My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did my mother. I believe that I just have it from my father, from my parents. They had wonderful energy.

I have very good executives and great children. They’re very good.

There are no guarantees, but being ready sure beats being taken by surprise.

Don’t depend on anyone but yourself for providing financial security.

Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.

Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

I have a theory that the best advertisements come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

If you love what you do, if you love going to the office, if you really like it – not just say it, but really like it – it keeps you young and energised. I really love what I do.

For a long time now, I have believed that industry and agriculture are natural partners and that they should begin to recognize and practice their partnership. Each of them is suffering from ailments which the other can cure. Agriculture needs a wider andsteadier market; industrial workers need more steadier jobs. Can each be made to supply what the other needs? I think so. The link between is Chemistry. In the vicinity of Dearborn we are farming twenty thousand acres for everything from sunflowers to soy beans. We pass the crops through our laboratory to learn how they may be used in the manufacture of motor cars and, thus provide an industrial market for the farmers’ products.

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.

There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.

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

The other people I don’t take too seriously are the critics-except when they stand in the way of my projects. In my opinion, they mostly write to impress each other, and they’re just as swayed by fashions as anyone else. One week it’s spare glass towers they are praising to the skies. The next week, they’ve rediscovered old, and they’re celebrating detail and ornamentation.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.

Asking me to come work here is the dumbest idea you ever had. It has been a waste of a year.

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

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.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.