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.

Boston Herald (7 January 2004), as quoted in The World According to Trump (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 16