“Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.”

Stay confident even when something bad happens. It is just a bump in the road. It will pass.

The best thing I know about me, is that I’m rich.

Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people.

I’m worth far too much money. I don’t need anybody’s money.

Imagine voting for someone who promises to raise your taxes.

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

Your business, and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.

Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force.

In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

Nothing is easy, but who wants nothing?

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.

My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.

Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.

So many people are on television that don’t know me, and they’re like experts on me.

That’s my attitude on the military. I don’t like telling the enemy what I’m doing.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.

In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.

It’s not about the goal, it’s about how you want to feel when you get there.

Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ’s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.