Great Throughts Treasury

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Donald Trump

American Business Magnate, Real Estate Developer, Author, and Television Personality.

"The man that wrote the second book ... didn't write the first book. The difference was like chicken salad and chicken shit."

"There has always been a display of wealth and always will be, until the depression comes, which it always does. And let me tell you, a display is a good thing. It shows people that you can be successful. It can show you a way of life."

"The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back."

"Today I'm very proud of myself, because I've accomplished something that nobody else has been able to accomplish. I was just informed, while on the helicopter, that our president has finally released a birth certificate. I want to look at it, but I hope it's true, so that we can get on to much more important matters, so the press can stop asking me questions. He should have done it a long time ago. Why he didn't do it when the Clintons asked for it, why he didn't do it when everyone else was asking for it, I don't know. But I am really honored, frankly, to have played such a big role in hopefully, hopefully getting rid of this issue. Now, we have to look at it, we have to see, is it real? Is it proper? What's on it? But I hope it checks out beautifully. I am really proud, I am really honored."

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

"The word is, according to what I've have read, is that [Barack Obama] 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?"

"Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country."

"Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases."

"Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned."

"We need a great president."

"What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?"

"What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!"

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

"Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people."

"When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough."

"When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it--fight back!"

"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."

"You have to think anyway, so why not think big?"

"Without passion, you don't have energy; without energy, you have nothing. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion."

"You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people."