Businesspeople In Real Estate

"If you don't tell people about your success, they probably won't know about it."

"Now, if your boss is a sadist, then you have a big problem. In that case, fire your boss and get a new job."

"Trump: My daughter is beautiful, Ivanka Stern: By the way, your daughter, Trump: She’s beautiful Stern: Can I say this? A piece of ass Trump: Yeah"

"I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways."

"I don't know how you do it. I've put together some really impressive deals, but this thing you've pulled off, it's amazing: a Big N' Tasty for just a dollar. How do you do it? What's your secret? Together Grimace, we could own this town."

"I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life."

"Donald Trump: Yeah, I guess so. I wish, uh, I wish the first time it was done correctly."

"Howard Stern: Are you for the invasion of Iraq?"

"I think the regulations are very tough, but I think they could be made tougher. And where they really have to be made tougher is when somebody is proven to be dishonest, not a mistake, not an honest mistake because look, people make bad business deals all the time. When somebody is proven to be dishonest, really harsh punishment has to take place."

"It's very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it."

"I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit."

"So the Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep."

"I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons."

"People want me to [run for president] all the time … I don't like it. Can you imagine how controversial I'd be? You think about him [Bill Clinton] and the women. How about me with the women? Can you imagine?"

"I'm on the conservative side, but [[Pat Buchanan|[Pat] Buchanan]] is Attila the Hun."

"The part of my life I think I'm most disappointed in is that I have not had the great marriage. And I would have thought that would have happened, because I came from a home—you know, it's not like some of my friends, they get divorced, but their parents were divorced twice or three times. I came from a home where marriage was just incredible. I mean, my parents truly loved each other."

"I surround myself with the best people. I know the best people."

"I'm conservative, and even very conservative. But I'm quite liberal and getting much more liberal on health care and other things. I really say: What's the purpose of a country if you're not going to have defensive and health care? If you can't take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it's all over. I mean, it's no good. So I'm very liberal when it comes to health care. I believe in . I believe in whatever it takes to make people well and better."

"“It’s amazing, I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider”"

"Let's make a deal; if you promise not to get "personal" with me, I will promise not to show you as the crude, fat and obnoxious slob which everyone knows you are. Sincerely, Donald J. Trump."

"Everybody's always blaming me for everything."

"Well, I think that she's got a lot of Marla [Maples, Trump's second wife], she's a really beautiful baby, and she's got Marla's legs. We don't know whether she's got this part yet [gestures toward own chest], but time will tell..."

"I am not a . I am not supposed to be going around checking s. That is what you have the FBI for, and they are very capable, the most capable."

"You know, if you’re young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam—it’s called the dating game... Dating is like being in Vietnam. You’re the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam."

"Howard Stern: So, you treat women with respect? Donald Trump: Uh, I can't say that either. Stern: Alright, good."

"I'm gonna be dating her in ten years."

"He's a good guy, and he's not going to hurt anybody. . . . He treated his wife well and . . . he will treat Marla well."

"Wow! Just think — in a couple of years I'll be dating you."

"You have to treat 'em [women] like s---"

"You know, it doesn't really matter what the media writes as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass."

"I said to the bankers, "Listen, fellows, if I have a problem, then you have a problem. We have to find a way out or it's going to be a difficult time for both of us.""

"When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength."

"Leona Helmsley is a truly evil human being. She treated employees worse than any human being I've ever witnessed and I've dealt with some of the toughest human beings alive."

"Very good question. (pause) I don't think it's a sin but I don't think it should be done."

""I want five children, like in my own family, because with five, then I will know that one will be guaranteed to turn out like me," Donald told a close friend."

""When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass—a good one!—there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left," he told me."

"She turned out to be the wife of a man who was then the prime minister of a major country. I'd heard stories about this lady, but I never thought much of them until that night. We met at the house of the friend who'd phoned me. After we'd all chatted for a while in the living room, the four of us who already knew each other drifted out to the kitchen, leaving Ben and Madame X in the living room to get better acquainted. Which they did. In fact, when we drifted back in, about ten minutes later, she and Ben were involved in an incredibly torrid scene on the couch. I remember standing there and thinking to myself, "Well, Donald, you're not in Queens anymore.""

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

"You can't be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens."

"You can't con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don't deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on."

"I'm a great believer in asking everyone for an opinion before I make a decision. ... I ask and I ask and I ask, until I begin to get a gut feeling about something. And that's when I make a decision. I have learned much more from conducting my own random surveys than I could ever have learned from the greatest of consulting firms."

"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."

"I don't do it for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form."

"I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it's literally going to cease to exist."

"I like to hire people that I've seen in action. I often hire people that were on the opposing side of a deal that I respect."

"Of course I hate these people and let's all hate these people because maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done."

"Let our politicians give back our police department's power to keep us safe. Unshackle them from the constant chant of "police brutality" which every petty criminal hurls immediately at an officer who has just risked his or her life to save another's."

"How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? Criminals must be told that their CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS!"

"Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so."

"I'm not big on compromise. I understand compromise. Sometimes compromise is the right answer, but oftentimes compromise is the equivalent of defeat, and I don't like being defeated."