Donald Trump

I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I’m very proud of the job I did.

Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

There are no guarantees, but being ready sure beats being taken by surprise.

I’ve always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists.

We must understand that governments cannot create real jobs. Only entrepreneurs can do that.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

If you eat a frog first thing in the morning, the rest of your day will be wonderful.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word ‘pessimist’ was not in our vocabulary at that time. It’s a modern ‘invention’ which I believe we should ‘dis-invent.’

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

People do make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks and embracing every possibility.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

Some people do really find fault like there’s a reward for it.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.