Donald Trump

Always think positively and expect the best.

I have the greatest supporters in the world. By the way they’re the smartest, they’re the hardest working, they pay taxes.

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

Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 [Hillary Clinton] emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.

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

If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

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

Hire character. Train skill.

It took only 10 minutes to do Chelsea deal with Roman Abramovich but I had to Google him first … I wasn’t sure if Jeremy Beadle was going to jump out.

I live on a plane. I like to visit London. If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice, and second would be New York. In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I’m used to four different seasons; it’s difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

As betting at the race ring adds neither strength nor speed to the horse, so the exchange of shares in the stock market adds no capital to business, no increase in the production and no purchasing power to the market.

Competition is the lifeblood of industry.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

We were all young and we were all inventing our careers. I was very close to Jackson, just as I’d been very close to Laura Nyro. With each person I had a unique relationship.

I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.

I used to be able to read memo’s upside down… It was like going to the college of the entertainment business.

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

[On his first job in the mailroom of William Morris a casting agency] It was the first time in the my life that I thought ‘I can do that.’