“If I don’t get along with Democrats, I’m sort of, like, out of business.”

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.

The budget was unlimited, but I exceeded it.

I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is.

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

A vote for Republicans is a vote for safe communities, great jobs, and a limitless future

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.

A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.