Donald Trump

He was also efficient and gave me his four-step formula for success: 1. Get in. 2. Get it done. 3. Get it done right. 4. And get out.

There’s an old German proverb to the effect that fear makes the wolf bigger than he is,and that is true.

First and foremost, I’m a real estate person. And that’s what I love the most.

Without passion you don’t have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA-infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great – but must suffer the consequences!

I don’t know the rules of grammar. If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

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.

Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

…capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

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

No one should buy on reputation alone. They should come and see it and inspect it, feel it and touch it.

On Beverly Hills we paid too much. One hundred per cent, we did over-pay. We didn’t do our research properly.

The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves. but they can get very excited by those who do. That is why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest, the greatest and the most spectacular.

If your dreams don’t scare you they are too small.

[On Calvin Klein asking him ‘Why don’t you call it Geffen Records?’] People in the record business just don’t do that. They come up with names likes Asylum, Capricorn, or Island. [Calvin Klein said if you put your own name on the door ‘You’ll get laid more.’]

I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

Our aim is to compete with any luxury brand. Candy & Candy will be a luxury brand, recognised in Rodeo Drive, New York, Dubai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and London. Those are the major centres in the world. It will be synonymous with the design of homes, houses, flats, yachts, aircraft and retail.

Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Our clients pay for value. London is the top city in the world, the best tax haven in the world for some and the top residential site in the city is One Hyde Park at the top end of Sloane Street.