Donald Trump

We’ve realized the situation will not change so the answer is for us to change.

I would never buy Ivana any decent jewels or pictures. Why give her negotiable assets?

Take the firearms first, and then go to court. A lot of times by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court to get the due process procedures, I like taking the guns early … Take the gun first, go through due process second.

Make sure the product is worth your energy.

Well, I do think there’s blame — yes, I think there’s blame on both sides. You look at — you look at both sides. I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either.

I’m intelligent. Some people would say I’m very, very, very intelligent.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

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.

[On Laura Nyro] I said to Laura ‘You know Laura, I think we should sell your music publishing company. I think right now is the right time you have three songs in the top ten this may never happen again and I think we can get a lot of money for it.’ And I made a deal with Clive Davis to sell Tuna Fish Music for $4 million. And that was a hell of a lot of money in 1969. It made her famous, it made her rich. It got people to listen to her music with her singing.

I don’t know the exact details of his background but from what I have read Mr. Abramovich had a very humble start in life and has made his own luck.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. With one foot in the land, human society is firmly balanced against most economic uncertainties. With a job to supply him with cash, and a plot of land to guarantee him support, the individual is doubly secure. Stocks may fail, but seedtime and harvest do not fail.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

After the situation with Kursk submarine, I started looking at Mr. Berezovsky in a completely different way. For me, it was a turning point in our relationship. I think that he took a completely dishonorable position.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I’m just hard-working and pragmatic.

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

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

Building a brand may be more important than building a business.

A low wage business is always insecure.

Money will ruin the life of any man who treats it like anything but a tool with which to work.