“We must understand that governments cannot create real jobs. Only entrepreneurs can do that.”

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.

Our country is being run by incompetent people.

To be honest I inherited a mess. It’s a mess. At home and abroad, a mess.

It is necessary to create hope for tomorrow for farmers and businesses.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life.

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.