By George Journal has selected bons mots of Donald Trump – the best of Donald Trump, the man (before he takes office as President of the United States).
- Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.
- Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team, and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.
- Unite to win. Divide to conquer.
- What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
- Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.
- 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.
- Your business, and your brand, must first let people know what you care about, and that you care about them.
- Remember, there’s no such thing as an unrealistic goal–just unrealistic time frames.
- Don’t set limits, and never tell yourself it can’t be done. Think without limitation and you will find a way to succeed.
- Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
- Without passion you don’t have energy, without energy you have nothing.
- Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
- Living your words, walking your talk, and talking your walk.
- Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.
- You must always stand your ground and never give in. If you think or feel something isn’t right, be verbal about it and state your views and opinions. Let people see your desire and inspire others to follow in your footsteps.
- When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it–fight back!
- Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.
- 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.
- Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
- 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. If you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.
- Good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.
- I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
- Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser.
- Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
- Rules are meant to be broken.
- I like to think of the word FOCUS as Follow One Course Until Successful.
- Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.
- It’s a blip, not a catastrophe.
- Everything in life is luck.
- 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.
- My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.
- Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
- In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake, but by what you finally accomplish.
And from his best-selling book, Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again
- The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work. What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take sixty percent or more of his extra pay? . . . Any system that penalizes success and accomplishment is wrong. Any system that discourages work, discourages productivity, discourages economic progress, is wrong. If, on the other hand, you reduce tax rates and allow people to spend or save more of what they earn, they’ll be more industrious; they’ll have more incentive to work hard, and money they earn will add fuel to the great economic machine that energizes our national progress. The result: more prosperity for all—and more revenue for government.
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