Quotees Archive

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

If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

- 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 your business is not a brand, it is just a commodity.

- Donald Trump

I’m a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

- Donald Trump

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, ‘You’re fired!’

- Donald Trump

Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.

- Donald Trump

China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn’t China involved? They’re going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we’re spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn’t China involved with Libya? That – we don’t get oil from Libya, China does.

- 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

Be ready for problems–you’ll have them every day. Keep open to new ideas–that’s where innovation begins.

- Donald Trump

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

- Donald Trump

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

- Donald Trump

Always try to learn from other peoples mistakes, not your own – It is much cheaper that way!

- Donald Trump

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.

- 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

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

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

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it’s getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

- Donald Trump

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

- 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

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 feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say.

- 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

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

- Donald Trump

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn’t exactly been one of moderation.

- Donald Trump