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A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by
any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life
hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me -
consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.
Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly
mistaken.
As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.
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.
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.
Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is
very bad.
Every time you walk down the street people are screaming,
'You're fired!'
Everything in life is luck.
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.
I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on
national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the
younger generation.
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.
I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward
the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking
anything, you might as well think big.
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 saw a report yesterday. There's so much oil, all over the
world, they don't know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, 'Oh, there's
too much oil.' They - they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They
want to reduce oil production. Do you think they're our friends? They're not
our friends.
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.
I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in
television.
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 try to learn from the past, but I plan for the
future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking
to make a statement.
I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in
Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.
If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with
your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have
anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's
over. You're not going to do it anymore.'
If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop
trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake
but by what you finally accomplish.
It's always good to be underestimated.
It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous
that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the
manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of
the other things that they do.
It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic,
from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.
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.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to
keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries
that are just absolutely destroying the United States.
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a
disgrace, good people don't go into government.
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.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the
war.
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of
me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million
myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage
over the other candidates.
The 1990's sure aren't like the 1980's.
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.
The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.
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.
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.
Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like
other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many
people.
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person
reacts to each new twist of fate.
When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be
tough.
Without passion you don’t have energy, without energy you
have nothing.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
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.
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