“I don’t hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don’t trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.”

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.

The worst of times often create the best opportunities to make good deals.

I am never tired of winning, and as your president I will win for you, the American people. I’m with you!

No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.

Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning.

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? “I’m glad you asked that. I’ve been wanting to say this for years.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

The conclusion does not belong to the artist.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.