Donald Trump

I built a great company, one of the – some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.

The illegal immigrants who have taken jobs that should go to people here legally, while over 20 percent of Americans are currently unemployed or underemployed.

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.

Leverage: don’t make deals without it!

A tiny leak can sink a ship.

The line of ‘Make America great again,’ the phrase, that was mine, I came up with it about a year ago, and I kept using it, and everybody’s using it, they are all loving it. I don’t know, I guess I should copyright it, maybe I have copyrighted it.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

It was impossible to operate in the aluminium business without krysha – very real physical protection.

We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven’t ordered wanted goods into your store.

Mr. Edison was comfortably well off-he was not a money maker.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

I have very good executives and great children. They’re very good.

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don’t live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.

…capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

There should be rivalry between men and between business.