Top 100 Donald J. Trump Quotes
#5. My motto is: Always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.
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#6. One thing I've learned about the press is that they're always hungry for a good story, and the more sensational the better. It's in the nature of the job, and I understand that. The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous,
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#8. The more predictable the business, the more valuable it is.
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#9. Sometimes understanding other people's problems is the key to finding opportunities.
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#11. Operate your day-to-day business as if bad times are always here, which is a great precaution.
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#12. Stay confident even when something bad happens. It is just a bump in the road. It will pass.
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#13. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
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#14. It is easier to ask for money when you don't need the money.
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#15. Once you focus on your life's objectives, you need to focus on your instructors to make sure they are qualified to teach you what you want to know. They should have already been where you want to go and have lived to tell about it.
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#16. Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.
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#17. 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.
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#19. Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.
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#20. What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
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#23. The worst of times often create the best opportunities to make good deals. The
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#24. A pro looks at the people, because they know business is about people.
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#25. Partnerships must have loyalty and integrity at their core.
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#27. My people keep telling me I shouldn't write letters like this to critics. The way I see it, critics get to say what they want to about my work, so why shouldn't I be able to say what I want to about theirs?
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#28. Because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure. In
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#29. Means seeing both sides of the story and working towards a mutually beneficial situation for everyone.
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#31. Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
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#32. An entrepreneur's ability to find strength when others want to run, hide, quit, or blame someone else for their failures.
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#33. I've found that people work harder when they are held accountable, and their confidence level rises along with that.
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#34. You know, it really doesn't matter what (the media) write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass.
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#35. Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
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#36. As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.
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#38. Think BIG! You are going to be thinking anyway, so think BIG!
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#40. Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.
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#42. good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.
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#43. When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it
fight back!
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#46. They think that successful diplomacy requires years of experience and an understanding of all the nuances that have to be carefully considered before reaching a conclusion. Only then do these pinstriped bureaucrats consider taking action.
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#47. We are going to build a wall. You're going to pay for the wall.
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#50. That experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. Because
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#51. Even as entrepreneurs, we rely on people to get things done. We may have the original idea, but moving it forward can involve hundreds of people. Every person becomes integral to the overall success.
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#53. A brand is two words: the 'Promise' you telegraph, and the 'Experience' you deliver.
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#54. you must work on improving your skills every day and never quit. In
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#55. Focus is essential to success, and successful people are people who can focus.
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#56. Most people think small because they are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning.
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#57. Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
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#58. You don't reward failure by promoting those responsible for it, because all you get is more failure.
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#59. I have a very simple rule when it comes to management: hire the best people from your competitors, pay them more than they were earning, and give them bonuses and incentives based on their performance. That's how you build a first-class operation.
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#60. that if you try once, you should try again. Keep that focus exactly where it should be - on winning.
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#61. Make every day extraordinary no matter what your job is.
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#62. Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.
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#63. The successful entrepreneur's unique ability to turn trying times into triumphs.
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#64. Living your words, walking your talk, and talking your walk.
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#67. When people are in a focused state, the words "I can't," "I'll try," "I'll do it tomorrow," and "maybe" get forced out of their vocabularies.
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#68. I like to think of the word FOCUS as Follow One Course Until Successful.
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#69. What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?
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#71. Your business, and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them.
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#72. I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
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#73. America is one of the few places in the world where a "poor" person can still be obese.6
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#74. There's an old German proverb to the effect that "fear makes the wolf bigger than he is," and that is true.
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#76. We must understand that governments cannot create real jobs. Only entrepreneurs can do that.
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#80. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.
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#81. He was also efficient and gave me his four-step formula for success: 1. Get in. 2. Get it done. 3. Get it done right. 4. And get out.
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#83. I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage. My
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#84. It's next to impossible to build a successful business without relationships.
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#85. If you have laws that you don't enforce, then you don't have laws. This leads to lawlessness.
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#87. Leaders need to have a fire in their heart, and a good reason for being - the
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#88. Perhaps because my father never got a college degree himself, he continued to view people who had one with a respect that bordered on awe. In most cases they didn't deserve it. My father could run circles around most academics and he would have done very well in college, if he'd been able to go.
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#89. Don't get sidetracked. If you do get sidetracked, get back on track as soon as possible. Ultimately sidetracking kills you.
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#90. the biggest little thing for entrepreneurs is the lifelong commitment to education.
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#91. Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.
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#92. You do your job, you keep your job. Do it well, you get a better job.
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#93. I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.
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#94. building a brand may be more important than building a business.
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#95. I've never been terribly interested in why people give, because their motivation is rarely what it seems to be, and it's almost never true altruism.
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#98. I discovered, for the first time but not the last, that politicians don't care too much what things cost. It's not their money.
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#99. Contrary to what a lot of people think, I don't enjoy doing press. I've been asked the same questions a million times now, and I don't particularly like talking about my personal life.
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#100. The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That's what gives rise to dictators.
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