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“And if it can’t be fun, what’s the point?” (Trump: The Art of the Deal Quotes)
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“But I’m a businessman, and I learned a lesson from that experience: 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.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“Contrary to what a lot of people think, I don’t enjoy doing press. I’ve been asked the same questions a million times now, and I don’t particularly like talking about my personal life.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“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.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“I discovered, for the first time but not the last, that politicians don’t care too much what things cost. It’s not their money.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“I worried about the growing opposition, but publicly my posture was to take the offensive and concede nothing to my critics. When a reporter later asked me why I got a forty-year tax abatement, I answered, “Because I didn’t ask for fifty.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“I’ve always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“I’ve never been terribly interested in why people give, because their motivation is rarely what it seems to be, and it’s almost never true altruism.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“I’ve read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I’ve made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.” (Trump: The Art of the Deal Quotes)
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“Most people think small because they are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“My people keep telling me I shouldn’t write letters like this to critics. The way I see it, critics get to say what they want to about my work, so why shouldn’t I be able to say what I want to about theirs?”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“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.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“Perhaps because my father never got a college degree himself, he continued to view people who had one with a respect that bordered on awe. In most cases they didn’t deserve it. My father could run circles around most academics and he would have done very well in college, if he’d been able to go.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“That 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.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves. but they can get very excited by those who do. That is why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest, the greatest and the most spectacular.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“The most important thing in life is to love what you’re doing, because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“The point is that 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.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“The worst of times often create the best opportunities to make good deals.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
“The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it. That makes the other guy smell blood, and then you’re dead. The best thing you can do is deal from strength, and leverage is the biggest strength you can have. Leverage is having something the other guy wants. Or better yet, needs. Or best of all, simply can’t do without.”
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal
