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  • Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

  • Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.

  • I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera.

  • I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

  • 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.

  • Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.

  • Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true.

  • A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

  • Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

  • I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

  • I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

  • I have respect for Senator McCain. I used to like him a lot. I supported him. I raised a lot of money for his campaign against President Obama.

  • I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.

  • I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

  • So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.

  • Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.

  • The Veterans Administration is a scandal. It's corrupt, and what's going on is a disgrace. And, believe me, if I win, if I become president, that will end. The veterans will be treated properly.

  • The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

  • We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

  • Private jets cost a lot of money.

  • I love Wisconsin. It's a great place.

  • I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.

  • I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.

  • 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.

  • I have a great relationship with Roger Ailes.

  • I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I've made a lot of money dealing against many other countries.

  • So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

  • I'm worth far too much money. I don't need anybody's money.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

  • Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.

  • If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

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

  • We need a great president.

  • When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

  • You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

  • People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church.

  • In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

  • The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.

  • Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

  • Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country.

  • I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

  • As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

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

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

  • With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

  • Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State.

  • Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

  • 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.

  • People who think achieving success is a linear A-to-Z process, a straight shot to the top, simply aren't in touch with reality.

  • Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's a bit like gut instinct, but a little more developed.

  • Ever notice how your senses are heightened when you are in challenging situations? You're experiencing an adrenaline rush that gives you extra energy. If you see every day as a challenge, you'd be surprised how efficient you can become, and how much can be accomplished.

  • Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

  • We have to get rid of ISIS first. After we get rid of ISIS, we'll start thinking about it. But we can't be fighting [Bashar] Assad. And when you're fighting Assad, you are fighting Russia, you're fighting - you're fighting a lot of different groups.

  • We have to do one thing at a time. We can't be fighting ISIS and fighting [Bashar]Assad. Assad is fighting ISIS. He is fighting ISIS. Russia is fighting now ISIS. And Iran is fighting ISIS.

  • I think [Bashar] Assad is a bad guy, a very bad guy, all right?

  • My baseball career ended in college.I played on the freshman team, but was becoming more drawn to intellectualism than athleticism, and so I gave up baseball, and it was perfect timing because baseball was going to give up me very soon.

  • The rest of what I learned about baseball came from Peter Gammons, the Boston Globe`s best baseball writer when I was in high school.

  • Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone`s shortlist of best baseball writers ever.

  • Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  • The best investments you ever make are investments in yourself - and your education. Those investments always pay big dividends.

  • I've never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn't have a big ego. Ego's not a bad thing.

  • You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

  • How to get rich ... whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a banker how he makes bread. You ask a billionaire how he makes money.

  • Under Islamic precepts, men cannot enter the home of a woman who they don`t know, and so they need the women in this effort to enter homes where they`re - where they`re looking for possible women terrorists, women accomplices of Boko Haram, and trying to either disarm them or get them out of that movement.

  • Karen Russell learned to think from her father, someone Peter Gammons knows well, Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, who used his prominence to support Martin Luther King Jr., to support the civil rights movement, and other important work, including work in Africa throughout his career. And Bill Russell is still at it.

  • I never planned on becoming a brand name. The success of the Trump name worldwide has been a surprise.

  • We should be using our brilliant people, our most brilliant minds to figure a way that ISIS cannot use the Internet. And then on second, we should be able to penetrate the Internet and find out exactly where ISIS is and everything about ISIS. And we can do that if we use our good people.

  • Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.

  • Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

  • Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him like a dog and will do it again -- just watch. He can do much better!

  • We live in a big world, and it is important for us to be aware of culture other than our own. Learn something new, whether you think you're interested in it or not. That's the opposite of having a closed mind or a closed door.

  • The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

  • When employees and employers, even coworkers, have a commitment to one another, everyone benefits. I have people who have been in business with me for decades. I reward their loyalty to the organization and to me. I know that they'll always be dedicated to what we're trying to accomplish.

  • You must work well with others and be loyal to your team. Disloyalty is the worst of all traits. I seldom use the words "You're fired!" in business, unless somebody is really scum and stole from me.

  • Markets always change, and as soon as there's downturn, cleanliness becomes a major value.

  • My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a different direction. I built Trump Tower in Manhattan, the most luxurious building in the world. It's not going to be easy for my son, but maybe it shouldn't be easy. Life is, after all, a test.

  • The U.S. must immediately stop all flights from EBOLA infected countries or the plague will start and spread inside our borders. Act fast!

  • I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I'm enjoying my life. I don't really live in an as extravagant way as people think.

  • I just love building buildings. I'm the largest developer in New York City. I'm having a lot of fun doing it. I think I've never had more fun. I'm just enjoying my life.

  • Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough

  • Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.

  • It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

  • The real excitement is playing the game.

  • What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

  • You don't have to believe in Feng Shui for it to work. I just know it brings me money.

  • I would guess that it might have made a difference. It certainly didn't hurt us in any way. Feng shui creates a balance that I believe adds to the comfort zone of rooms and space, and that is felt by guests and residents.

  • I don't have to believe in Feng Shui, I do it because it makes me money.

  • You cannot be successful without passion. If you don't love what you're doing, if you don't have passion for it - forget it. Do something else. You'll be much more successful and you'll lead a lot happier life.

  • We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

  • In an age of so many people getting hurt in real estate, it shows that you can still do well in real estate.

  • 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.

  • Everything in life is luck.

  • Most of what I learned about baseball came from great coaches, beginning with my father, then Bob [Buchelle], when I`d made it into the seated row of Little League in [Dorchester], then Dan Burke, [John Balfe], the great Henry Lane.

  • Sirio Maccioni is the perfect Maestro. He does it all: great food, great entertainment, and always with a room full of the best people. He's the only person I could ever imagine going into the restaurant business with!

  • The point is that you can't be too greedy.

  • I express myself very strongly it`s groveling, I`m trying to show groveling, but all of a sudden I found that I was mocking somebody.

  • I think maybe my greatest weakness is that I trust people too much. I'm too trusting. And when they let me down, if they let me down, I never forgive. I find it very, very hard to forgive people that deceived me. So I don't know if you would call that a weakness, but my wife said "let up."

  • In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

  • If you don't have a positive attitude in business and in life, you will never, ever be successful.

  • In business, I've discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That's my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.

  • The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but theycan still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts.

  • People are so shocked when they find ... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church and I love God and I love my church.

  • For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.

  • [Marco]Rubio comes out. He represents for a short period of time the people of Florida. He has got the worst attendance record in the United States Senate, doesn`t vote. He is weak on, very weak on illegal immigration, totally in favor of amnesty.

  • I don't want ISIS using our Internet to take our young, impressionable youth and watching the media talking about how they're masterminds - these are masterminds. They shouldn't be using the word "mastermind."

  • The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.

  • Somewhere out there are a few men with more innate talent at golf than Jack Nicklaus, or women with greater ability at tennis than Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova, but they will never lift a club or swing a racket and therefore will never find out how great they could have been. Instead, they'll be content to sit and watch stars perform on television.

  • Radical Islamic terrorism came into effect even more so than it has been in the past. People like what I say. People respect what I say. And we've opened up a very big discussion that needed to be opened up.

  • While GOP elites say they`re shocked, shocked, by [Donald] Trump`s religious bigotry, this is far from the first time Islamophobia has bubbled up in their party.

  • 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.

  • Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

  • 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.

  • Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

  • I don't like to sit back and gloat, because the world is fragile. Life is fragile, so I never really gloat.

  • Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion.

  • Providing jobs at three flat factories in Malawi to make school desks for kids who have never seen desks, and providing scholarships for girls to go to high school who would never otherwise be able to go to high school, is by far the most important work I do.

  • I get these lightweights like Marco Rubio, he gets up and says'Oh, Donald Trump didn't talk about foreign policy'.

  • Marco Rubio has got the number one worst attendance record, and they want him to be president, right?

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