Donald Trump

Leverage: don’t make deals without it!

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.

You’re having a lot of fun, right? Suppose Hillary got elected instead of Trump, you think it would be so exciting?

I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it’s literally going to cease to exist.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life’s losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves.

No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

Getting permanent value out of a job means purpose and fitting means to ends.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.

We’ve created a recognisable brand that has the ability to be the Louis Vuitton of our era.

Competition is the lifeblood of industry.

If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.

I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

We have had just one main purpose during these years, and that is to give the people transportation of the most dependable quality at the lowest possible cost. Our car was called the Universal Car thirty years ago, because it fulfilled so many needs; it is The Universal Car today for the same reason.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about ‘hard work’ without having a corresponding result to show for it.

[On his first job in the mailroom of William Morris a casting agency] It was the first time in the my life that I thought ‘I can do that.’

I think everybody thought I was crazy that I quit my job and started a management company in which I was managing one client – Laura Nyro.

If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.

The union organizers are asking us to sit still while it sells our men the jobs that have always been free.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.