Donald Trump

The concept of shaking hands is absolutely terrible, and statistically I’ve been proven right.

And if it can’t be fun, what’s the point?

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

In real life, if I were firing you, I’d tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that’s different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It’s not a very pleasant thing. I don’t like firing people.

To be blunt, people would vote for me. They just would. Why? Maybe because I’m so good looking.

I don’t think I’ve made mistakes. Every time somebody said I made a mistake, they do the polls and my numbers go up, so I guess I haven’t made any mistakes.

My definition of an executive’s job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

Hire character. Train skill.

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

The consumer isn’t a moron. She is your wife.

There is a time and place for all things to be successful. There is fate and destiny and opportunity, and you need all three things in line at the same time.

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

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

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

As members of the Ford Motor organization we are engaged in the production of an article of use for the people of all countries. Our principle is to make our work as profitable for the buyer as for the seller.

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.

We do not hire a man’s history, we hire the man.

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules, you learn by doing and by falling over.