Top 450 Donald Trump Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.”

— Donald Trump

152. “We have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game.”

— Donald Trump

153. “In business you must give something back.”

— Donald Trump

154. “Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job.”

— Donald Trump

155. “I assume I can give you a letter from a big law firm saying that we’re under audit.”

— Donald Trump

156. “You really have to believe it.”

— Donald Trump

157. “If I’m going to be president, I will try the best I can, and I’m a very good dealmaker, believe me.”

— Donald Trump

158. “You really have to love what you are doing, so you don’t give up.”

— Donald Trump

159. “You have to stay focused. You cannot take your eye of your goal.”

— Donald Trump

160. “I don’t like being negative to people who are so nice to me.”

— Donald Trump

161. “The one sure way to success is to know everything you can about what you do.”

— Donald Trump

162. “The best thing I’ve done? Well, I’ve created four beautiful children.”

— Donald Trump

163. “Ultimately, if you’re not doing what you love, you’re not going to be fulfilled. Sure, to make money, you have to be tough, you have to have some smarts and a little luck would help, but the bottom line is: You have to love what you do.”

— Donald Trump

164. “Life is actually a series of tests. It’s a social test, a happiness test, a business success test. You’d like to get A’s in all of them.”

— Donald Trump

165. “In life you have to rely on the past, and that’s called history.”

— Donald Trump

166. “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are little short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”

— Donald Trump

167. “Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.”

— Donald Trump

168. “Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once.”

— Donald Trump

169. “I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it’s time America was run like a business.”

— Donald Trump

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

— Donald Trump

171. “I feel a very, very strong bind, and really I’m bound to this country, we either have a border or we don’t. People can come into the country, we welcome people to come but they have to come in legally.”

— Donald Trump

172. “Always know you could be on the precipice of something great.”

— Donald Trump

173. “What’s the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?”

— Donald Trump

174. “We can’t let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!’Let’s fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.”

— Donald Trump

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

— Donald Trump

176. “You have to love what you do. Without passion, great success is hard to come by. An entrepreneur will have tough times if he or she isn’t passionate about what they’re doing. People who love what they’re doing don’t give up. It’s never even a consideration. It’s a pretty simple formula.”

— Donald Trump

177. “I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.”

— Donald Trump

178. “There’s something going on and it’s bad. And I’m saying we have to get to the bottom of it.”

— Donald Trump

179. “We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.”

— Donald Trump

180. “If Iran was a stock, you folks should go out and buy it right now because you’ll quadruple – this, what’s happening in Iran, is a disgrace, and it’s going to lead to destruction in large portions of the world.”

— Donald Trump

181. “Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.”

— Donald Trump

182. “Pope is questioning my faith. I was very surprised to see it. But I am a Christian, and I’m proud of it.”

— Donald Trump

183. “My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I’m a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage – my life is a study of that.”

— Donald Trump

184. “Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.”

— Donald Trump

185. “I fire people that win gold medals, great champions, everything else, and, you know, it’s not – it’s not easy. People say oh well it comes easy for me, it doesn’t. And it’s never fun. It’s all to easier though when I don’t like somebody or when they’re really, really bad then it becomes much easier.”

— Donald Trump

186. “You have 50,000 thoughts a day you might as well make them big ones...”

— Donald Trump

187. “Well, real estate is always good, as far as I’m concerned.”

— Donald Trump

188. “We don’t have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.”

— Donald Trump

189. “First of all, you have to born with a brain. I mean, you can’t be a dummy and say I’m going to become a multi-billionaire some day. But, more than anything else, you have to love what you do, and beyond that, you can’t ever give up.”

— Donald Trump

190. “Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.”

— Donald Trump

191. “You have to have passion, go with your gut, go against the tide.”

— Donald Trump

192. “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.”

— Donald Trump

193. “A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?”

— Donald Trump

194. “I don’t think I changed a lot although I learned a lot. Adversity can be a wonderful teacher. Some people can’t handle the pressure of it. For me it was a great thing. I learned about myself going through tough times. I guess I learned well.”

— Donald Trump

195. “In business, I’ve discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That’s my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.”

— Donald Trump

196. “I’m not sure everybody agrees with me. I guess a lot of people don’t. We are living in a time that’s as evil as any time that there has ever been.”

— Donald Trump

197. “I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There’s a beauty to making a great deal. It’s my canvas. And I like painting it.”

— Donald Trump

198. “I’ve gained great respect for the Republican leadership. I’ve gained great respect for many – and I’m going to even say – I mean, in different forms for the people on the dais, in different forms.”

— Donald Trump

199. “Sometimes I’ll make a statement they’ll say, this is the end. This is the end! Right? This is the end. It’s finally going to happen.”

— Donald Trump

200. “I’m a busy guy but I set aside quiet time every morning and every evening to keep my equilibrium centered on my own path. I don’t like being swayed by anything that might be negative or damaging.”

— Donald Trump