Top 450 Donald Trump Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “If you really want to succeed, you’ll have to go for it every day like I do. The big time isn’t for slackers. Keep up your mental stamina and remain curious. I think that bored people are unintelligent people.”

— Donald Trump

202. “Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years old. There’s no absolute timeline for anyone. That’s a good reason never to give up, to keep on discovering things every day.”

— Donald Trump

203. “It’s not like I’m anti-China. I just think it’s ridiculous that we allow them to do what they’re doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.”

— Donald Trump

204. “I think the media is among the most dishonest groups of people I’ve ever met.”

— Donald Trump

205. “Markets always change, and as soon as there’s downturn, cleanliness becomes a major value.”

— Donald Trump

206. “I wish we had the $4 trillion or $5 trillion. I wish it were spent right here in the United States, on our schools, hospitals, roads, airports, and everything else that are all falling apart.”

— Donald Trump

207. “When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys come in, they say it’s going to cost $75 million. I say it’s going to cost $125 million, and I build it for $100 million. Basically, I did a lousy job. But they think I did a great job.”

— Donald Trump

208. “I’ve never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn’t have a big ego. Ego’s not a bad thing.”

— Donald Trump

209. “We need a great president.”

— Donald Trump

210. “I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I’m enjoying my life. I don’t really live in an as extravagant way as people think.”

— Donald Trump

211. “I was in a state of shock, because I have never seen the pope talk about something as unimportant as Donald Trump. OK? And I was like, the pope is talking about me? This can’t be happening. And then I said, is it good or bad? They said it’s bad.”

— Donald Trump

212. “If you look – look at – I mean, look at what’s going on with your gasoline prices. They’re going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don’t have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, ‘Fellas, it’s time. It’s over. You’re not going to do it anymore.’”

— Donald Trump

213. “We won with everything! We won with women! I love the women! We won with evangelicals. Like, unbelievable.”

— Donald Trump

214. “I’m asking you to make at least some of your Christmas giving important.”

— Donald Trump

215. “It’s very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.”

— Donald Trump

216. “The first thing I learned is when times are tough, you need to hedge your bets – you need to diversify.”

— Donald Trump

217. “Every time there’s a tragedy, everything goes up.”

— Donald Trump

218. “The only category I do badly in is my personality. And that’s OK. Who cares? And you know what? You want to know something? I’m a better person than the people I’m running against. I see it.”

— Donald Trump

219. “I love the people and I actually think they like me a lot.”

— Donald Trump

220. “Hillary Clinton was saying Bill Clinton has tendencies toward being sexist.”

— Donald Trump

221. “I love what I’m doing. But I love the USA more. And I can straighten it out. And I can truly make this country great again and nobody else can do what I do.”

— Donald Trump

222. “You just have to be the kind of guy to get people to do things.”

— Donald Trump

223. “America’s problem is too much political correctness.”

— Donald Trump

224. “For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful. I’m proud to be a Christian, and as president, I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening now.”

— Donald Trump

225. “We do have to look at the mosques very carefully. The mosques, a lot of things are happening in there, folks, a lot of things.”

— Donald Trump

226. “I think maybe my greatest weakness is that I trust people too much. I’m too trusting. And when they let me down, if they let me down, I never forgive. I find it very, very hard to forgive people that deceived me. So I don’t know if you would call that a weakness, but my wife said “let up.””

— Donald Trump

227. “I like Mexico. I love the Mexican people. I do business with the Mexican people, but you have people coming through the border that are from all over. And they’re bad. They’re really bad.”

— Donald Trump

228. “I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I’m more honest and my women are more beautiful.”

— Donald Trump

229. “We need a toughness. We need strength. We’re not respected, as a nation anymore. We don’t have that level of respect that we need. And if we don’t get it back fast, we’re just going to go weaker, weaker and just disintegrate.”

— Donald Trump

230. “I’ll tell you, it’s Big Business. If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it’s Big Business. Or two words – Big Business.”

— Donald Trump

231. “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border and I will make Mexico pay for that wall.”

— Donald Trump

232. “I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in Israel. Walls work if they’re properly constructed. I know how to build, believe me, I know how to build.”

— Donald Trump

233. “Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.”

— Donald Trump

234. “I love producing children. It’s fun! I don’t like taking care of children, but I love producing children.”

— Donald Trump

235. “I am really rich. All of my life I have heard a truly successful, and even a modestly successful person, cannot run for public office – just can’t happen. Yet that’s the kind of mindset you need to make this country great again.”

— Donald Trump

236. “Nelson Mandela and myself had a wonderful relationship – he was a special man and will be missed.”

— Donald Trump

237. “Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone’s shortlist of best baseball writers ever.”

— Donald Trump

238. “We won with the military. We won with highly educated, pretty well educated and poorly educated. But we won with everything, tall people, short people, fat people, skinny people just won.”

— Donald Trump

239. “We are going to start winning again. We don’t win on trade, we can’t beat Isil. We are going to win so much. We are going to make America greater than ever before.”

— Donald Trump

240. “The Middle East is totally destabilized. A total and complete mess.”

— Donald Trump

241. “For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It’s fatal. It’s costly. And it’s for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.”

— Donald Trump

242. “You have Obama that wants to play golf instead of deal with people.”

— Donald Trump

243. “The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but theycan still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts.”

— Donald Trump

244. “There’s always luck involved in things, luck is involved in life; you’re born a certain way, you’re born in a certain location, you’re born – country, there’s always luck. And some people disagree that there’s no such thing as luck, well, I’ll take them on anytime you want.”

— Donald Trump

245. “You can take the smartest kid at Wharton, the one who gets straight A’s and has a 170 IQ, and if he doesn’t have the instincts, he’ll never be a successful entrepreneur.”

— Donald Trump

246. “The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.”

— Donald Trump

247. “A lot of people want me to run for things, for a lot of high offices. The polls always show that I win any election that I’m in. But I don’t have any real interest in running for office. I’m more interested in supporting people.”

— Donald Trump

248. “Donald Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”

— Donald Trump

249. “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.”

— Donald Trump

250. “I think I have great knowledge of foreign policy, frankly. And despite what some people said, I was always against the war in Iraq, and a lot of people weren’t.”

— Donald Trump