Donald Trump Quotes

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The point is that you can't be too greedy.

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I'm a bit of a P.T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

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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.

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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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I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present.

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It's hard to explain. I don't care about anything having to do with anything having to do with anything other than the country.

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I want every American to succeed including Muslims. But the Muslims have to work with us. They have to work with us. They know what's going on. They know that he was bad. They knew the people in San Bernardino were bad. But you know what? They didn't turn them in. And you know what? We had death, and destruction.

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As far as the, you know, potential conflict of interests, though, I mean I know that from the standpoint, the law is totally on my side, meaning, the president can't have a conflict of interest. That's been reported very widely. Despite that, I don't want there to be a conflict of interest anyway. And the laws, the president can't. And I understand why the president can't have a conflict of interest now because everything a president does in some ways is like a conflict of interest.

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In my life, there are two things I've found I'm very good at: overcoming obstacles and motivating good people to do their best work.

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If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

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I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

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Remember Obamacare, you're going to keep your doctor, you're going to keep your plan, over and over again, you're going to keep your doctor. It was a lie. And in fact, if he didn't make the lie, he would have never gotten it approved because most Democrats, many of the Democrats didn't want to do it. It was only that, that got them to sign it and to approve it. And it was a lie.

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We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone. But my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens.

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I think he's a pervert. It's dangerous to allow him on the convention floor.

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Hillary and President Obama refused to use the term radical Islamic terrorism. Big problem. Big problem. Hillary wants to release violent criminals and criminal offenders from prison, that's wonderful, enjoy yourselves. I want to work with our police. Our police are so incredible, they're not getting the respect they deserve.

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We owe China $1.3 trillion. We owe Japan more than that. So they come in, they take our jobs, they take our money, and then they loan us back the money, and we pay them in interest, and then the dollar goes up so their deal's even better. How stupid are our leaders? How stupid are these politicians to allow this to happen? How stupid are they?

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The women I have dated over the years could have any man they want; they are the top models and most beautiful women in the world. I have been able to date them all because I have something that many men do not have. I don't know what it is but women have always liked it.

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The word is, according to what I've have read, is that he was a terrible student when he went to Occidental. He then gets to Columbia and then gets to Harvard. I heard at Columbia he was not a very good student, and then he then he gets into Harvard. How do you get into Harvard if you are not a good student? Maybe that's right, maybe that's wrong, but I don't know why he doesn't he release his records. Why doesn't he release his Occidental records?

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You need more police. You need a better community, you know, relation.... You need better relationships between the communities and the police, because in some cases, it's not good.

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You have a problem with ISIS. You have a bigger problem with China. And, in my opinion, the new China, believe it or not, in terms of trade, is Mexico.

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No dream is too big, no challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach. America will no longer settle for anything less than the best.

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Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

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I love the military, and I want to have the strongest military that we've ever had, and we need it more now than ever. But I said, Don't hit Iraq, because you're going to totally destabilize the Middle East. Iran is going to take over the Middle East, Iran and somebody else will get the oil, and it turned out that Iran is now taking over Iraq. Think of it. Iran is taking over Iraq, and they're taking it over big league.

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I get up, take a shower and wash my hair. Then I read the newspapers and watch the news on television, and slowly the hair dries. It takes about an hour. I don't use the blow dryer. Once it's dry I comb it. Once I have it the way I like it — even though nobody else likes it — I spray it and it's good for the day.

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No longer will we enter into these massive deals, with many countries, that are thousands of pages long – and which no one from our country even reads or understands. We are going to enforce all trade violations, including through the use of taxes and tariffs, against any country that cheats.

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Hillary Clinton I think is a terrific woman. I am biased because I have known her for years. I live in New York. She lives in New York. I really like her and her husband both a lot. I think she really works hard. And I think, again, she's given an agenda, it is not all of her, but I think she really works hard and I think she does a good job. I like her.

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I don't like firing people. It's not a pleasant thing and it's sad.... In some cases, it's a terrible, terrible situation for the person who gets fired, how strongly they take it. So it's not something that any rational or sane person can love doing, but it also happens to be a fact of life in business.

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When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve.

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I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I'm more honest and my women are more beautiful.

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You know, when you put out policy, like a 14-point plan? A lot of times in the first hour of negotiation, that 14-point plan goes astray, but you may end up with a better deal. That's the way it works. That's the way really life works. When I do a deal, I don't say, "Oh, here's 14 points." I got out and do it. I don't sit down and talk about 14 points.

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