Donald Trump

To be successful in the world of entrepreneurs, especially in the early stages, a person must learn to fail, correct, learn, apply what was learned, and fail again.

Number one, I have great respect for women. I was the one that really broke the glass ceiling on behalf of women, more than anybody in the construction industry.

I was in Moscow recently and I spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer, and we had a tremendous success.

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.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

Learn something new every day.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, ‘What kind of peace?’

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

We have no guns – we have only stones, boxes of matches and petrol. Together, hand in hand, with our boxes of matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

George Orwell wrote that nationalists, who are practically the whole intellectual class of a country, not only do not disapprove of the crimes of their own state, but have the remarkable capacity not even to see them.

The American way is the way most law-abiding, tax-paying Americans live-in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

We are no longer a leader. Putin has become the leader, and it’s an embarassment to our country.

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.

America’s greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.

The whole world recognizes Russia’s cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.