Donald Trump

If you get good ratings, they’ll cover you even if you have nothing to say.

Most of them have gotten really good at saying absolutely nothing. They’ve all got some kind of program, but when you listen to them, you still don’t know what they’re talking about.

To be blunt, people would vote for me. They just would. Why? Maybe because I’m so good looking.

Luck does not come around often. So when it does, be sure to take full advantage of it, even if it means working very hard. When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve. That is the true meaning of thinking big.

Precision, instinct and tempo are all necessary in order to become extraordinary.

I’m actually proud because I beat [the] Clinton dynasty. I beat [the] Bush dynasty. Now I guess, hopefully I’m in the process of beating very dishonest intelligence because, what they did was incredible.

We started learning ourselves, understanding ourselves, reading, researching, going around the world and looking at what was defined as the very best.

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

Work is our sanity, our self-respect, our salvation. The day’s work is the center of everything.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

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

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

I never insisted that I was a good student.

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

While several parties have expressed interest in buying the company, I’m not shopping it, I haven’t sold it and I’m not about to sell it.

I never aspired to be a public figure. I have always been interested primarily in real business and the development of business strategies.

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

I really don’t retain information – by the time I arrive wherever I’m going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.