Quotes by Donald Trump

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?
– Donald Trump
All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.
– Donald Trump
Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
– Donald Trump
Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
– Donald Trump
Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'
– Donald Trump
Everything in life is luck.
– Donald Trump
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.
– Donald Trump
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.
– Donald Trump
I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
– Donald Trump
I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
– Donald Trump
I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. You're fired is a very strong term.
– Donald Trump
I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.
– Donald Trump
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.
– Donald Trump
I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
– Donald Trump
I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
– Donald Trump
It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.
– Donald Trump
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
– Donald Trump
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
– Donald Trump
The 1990's sure aren't like the 1980's.
– Donald Trump
The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
– Donald Trump
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
– Donald Trump
Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
– Donald Trump
Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
– Donald Trump
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
– Donald Trump
When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys come in, they say it's going to cost $75 million. I say it's going to cost $125 million, and I build it for $100 million. Basically, I did a lousy job. But they think I did a great job.
– Donald Trump
Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.
– Donald Trump
You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.
– Donald Trump
You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
– Donald Trump
We need a great president.
– Donald Trump
The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.
– Donald Trump
That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.
– Donald Trump
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
– Donald Trump
So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.
– Donald Trump
So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.
– Donald Trump
People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.
– Donald Trump
Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.
– Donald Trump
Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.
– Donald Trump
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
– Donald Trump
Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
– Donald Trump
Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
– Donald Trump
It's always good to be underestimated.
– Donald Trump
It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.
– Donald Trump
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
– Donald Trump
If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'
– Donald Trump
I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.
– Donald Trump
I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.
– Donald Trump
I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.
– Donald Trump
I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'
– Donald Trump
But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.
– Donald Trump
A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.
– Donald Trump
A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
– Donald Trump