Donald Trump Quotes

500 Donald Trump Quotes

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It’s nice to build a successful hotel. It’s a lot better to build a hotel attached to a huge casino…
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Protect the downside and the upside will take care of itself.
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People think I’m a gambler. I’ve never gambled in my life.
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A gambler is someone who plays slot machines. I prefer to own slot machines.
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If you go for a home run on every pitch, you’re also going to strike out a lot. I try never to leave myself too exposed, even if it means sometimes settling for a triple, a double, or even, on rare occasions, a single.
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I never get too attached to one deal or one approach…
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I keep a lot of balls in the air, because most deals fall out, no matter how promising they seem at first… Once I’ve made a deal, I always come up with at least a half dozen approaches to making it work, because anything can happen, even to the best-laid plans.
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Leverage: don’t make deals without it.
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The most misunderstood concept of all real estate is that the key to success is location, location, location. Usually, that’s said by people who don’t know what they’re talking about.
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You don’t necessarily need the best location. What you need is the best deal.
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Location… has a lot to do with fashion.
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What you should never do is pay too much, even if that means walking away from a very good site.
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You can have the most wonderful product in the world, but if people don’t know about it, it’s not going to be worth much.
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People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do… People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular.
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You can’t con people, at least not for long.
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If you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.
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As poorly qualified as he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary. That ability above all helped him get elected president.
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The dollar always talks in the end.
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I never threw money around. I learned from my father that every penny counts, because before too long your pennies turn into dollars.
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To this day, if I feel a contractor is overcharging me, I’ll pick up the phone, even if it’s only for $5,000 or $10,000, and I’ll complain. People say to me, ‘What are you bothering for, over a few bucks?’ My answer is that the day I can’t pick up the telephone and make a twenty-five cent call to save $10,000 is the day I’m going to close up shop.
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You can dream great dreams, but they’ll never amount to much if you can’t turn them into reality at a reasonable cost.
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Life is very fragile and success doesn’t change that. If anything, success makes it more fragile.
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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
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Get in, get it done, get it done right, and get out.
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Almost from the time I could walk, I’d been going to construction sites with my father.
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You made it in my father’s business – rent-controlled and rent-stabilized buildings – by being very tough and very relentless.
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To this day, the Trump buildings in Queens and Brooklyn are considered among the best reasonably priced places to live in New York.
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You never stand in front of someone’s door when you knock. Instead you stand by the wall and reach over to knock… ‘In this business,’ he said ‘if you knock on the wrong apartment at the wrong time, you’re liable to get shot.’
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You used red brick, no necessarily because you liked it, but because it was a penny a brick cheaper than tan brick.
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My mother loves splendor and magnificence, while my father, who is very down to earth, gets excited by competence and efficiency.
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I can always tell a loser when I see someone with a car for sale that is filthy dirty. It’s so easy to make it look better.
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Well maintained real estate is always going to be worth a lot more than poorly maintained real estate.
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Irving was sixty-five years old and a real character. He was one of the greatest bullsh*t artists I’ve ever met, but in addition to being a very sharp talker and a very slick salesman, he was also an amazing manager. Irving was the kind of guy who worked perhaps an hour a day and accomplished more in that hour than most managers did in twelve hours.
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It never pays to be in too much of a hurry.
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It was remarkable in a way: the seller paying for the costs of the potential buyer. Still, you have to put it into perspective. What sounds like a stupid deal today was very different at a time when no one wanted to build anything, and the city was dying.
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The city was on the verge of bankruptcy, but what I saw was a superb location. Unless the city literally died, millions of affluent people were going to keep passing by this location every day. The problem was the hotel, not the neighborhood.
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The city is in trouble, but it’s still a great city, and it’s our city, and if you don’t believe in it, if you won’t invest in it, how can you expect to turn it around? If you lend millions of dollars to Third World countries and suburban-shopping-mall magnates, don’t you also owe some obligation to your own city?
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There are some people in your life you just want to pay your respects to, no matter what it involves.
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I want to build the most fantastic building in New York.
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It was a great-looking design, but it was also very saleable. To hit a real home run, you need both.
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