Donald Trump

It’s really cold outside, they are calling it a major freeze, weeks ahead of normal. Man, we could use a big fat dose of global warming!

Do not neglect your life skills, which should include a healthy dose of financial education.

I say, not in a braggadocios way, I’ve made billions and billions of dollars dealing with people all around the world.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion

Never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people who care about you.

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

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 don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

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.

The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

Building a brand may be more important than building a business.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

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.

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

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn’t.

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.