LEARN “The Art of the Deal” from the dealmaker
himself – the UNPRECEDENTED 45th and 47th President of
the United States of America – Donald J. Trump.
47 SHOCKING statements
said by President Trump in his book:
The Art of the Deal
These "QUOTES" are going to entice YOU to READ his book.
1. I don’t do it for the money. (Page 1)
2. “You listen to
me. If you do foreclose, I’ll personally
bring a lawsuit for murder against you and your bank, on the grounds that you
harassed Mrs. Hill’s husband to his death.”
(Page 4-5)
3. I’ll wing it and
things will work out. (Page 13)
4. … I’m not too big on
parties, because I can’t stand small talk. (Page 15)
5. … modern art is a
con … I sometimes wonder what would happen if collectors knew what I knew about
my friend’s work that afternoon. (Page 34)
6. No poison pill is
going to keep me from going after Holiday Inn, if that’s what I decide I want
to do. (Page 39)
7. I almost never stay
up late enough to watch Letterman, but I know he’s hot. I say sure.
Five minutes later, Letterman walks in, along with a cameraman, a couple
of assistants, and a very nice-looking married couple from Louisville. We kid around a little, … (Page 43)
8. … I still hope you
won’t follow my advice. Because that
would just make it a much tougher world for me. (Page 46)
9. … most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage. (Page 47)
10. People think I’m a
gambler. I’ve never gambled in my
life. To me, a gambler is someone who
plays slot machines. (Page 48)
11. I never get too
attached to one deal or one approach … I keep a lot of balls in the air,
because most deals fall out, no matter how promising they seem at first. (Page 50)
12. … I don’t trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions. I’m a great believer in asking everyone for an opinion before I make a decision. (Page 51)
13. Leverage: don’t make deals without it. (Page 54)
14. What you should
never do is pay too much, even if that means walking away from a very good
site. (Page 56)
15. I play to people’s
fantasies. People may not always think
big themselves, but they can still get excited by those who do … I call it
truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent
form of exaggeration – and a very effective form of promotion. (Page 58)
16. Fight Back … There are people – I categorize them as life’s losers – who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves. (Page 58-9)
18. … every penny counts
… (Page 62)
19. Have Fun … Life is
very fragile … If you ask me exactly what the deals … all add up to in the end,
I’m not sure I have a very good answer.
Except that I’ve had a very good time making them. (Page 63)
20. His father (Donald’s
grandfather) … died when my father (Fred) was eleven… (Page 66)
21. … my father would
say to me, “the most important thing in life is to love what you’re doing, because
that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it. (Page 67)
22. One year after he
got out of high school, my father built his first home, … in Queens. (Page 67)
23. My father still
works out of a small, modest back office … in Brooklyn, in a building he put up
in 1948. (Page 69)
24. I regret now that I
ever said that. (Page 71)
25. I’m not proud of
that, but it’s clear evidence that even early on I had a tendency to stand up
and make my opinions known … (Page 71)
26. Perhaps the most
important thing I learned at Wharton was not to be overly impressed by academic
credentials. (Page 77)
27. I’d just graduated
from Wharton, and suddenly here I was in a scene that was violent at worst and
unpleasant at best. (Page 78)
28. I still remember my
mother, who is Scottish by birth, sitting in front of the television set to
watch Queen Elizabeth’s coronation and not budging for an entire day. (Page 80)
29. In college, while my
friends were reading the comics and the sports pages of newspapers, I was
reading the listings of FHA foreclosures.
(Page 81)
30. Within a year, the
buildings were 100 percent rented. (Page
85)
31. Frankly, the Prudent
people should have been more prudent. (Page 92)
32. I don’t drink, and I’m
not very big on sitting around … For the next two hours, we sat there as they
drank and I didn’t, until finally I said, …
(Page 96)
33. When I finally did
get married, I married a very beautiful woman, but a woman who also happens to
be a rock, just like my mother and father.
(Page97)
34. The funny thing is
that the city’s desperate circumstances became my biggest weapon. (Page 122)
35. I was speechless.
(Page 155)
36. Many wealthy
foreigners didn’t have the proper social references for these cooperatives, or
didn’t want to put themselves through the scrutiny of a bunch of prying
strangers. Instead, they came to
us. (Page 182)
37. At the New York
Military Academy, May 1963 (Pictures in middle of book)
38. Signing running back
Herschel Walker to lay for the New Jersey Generals, September 23, 1983. (Pictures in middle of book)
39. Being greeted by
President and Mrs. Reagan, 1986 (Pictures in middle of book)
40. Shortly after we
began selling apartments, I got a call from a reporter asking whether or not it
was true that Prince Charles had purchased an apartment in Trump Tower. (Page 183)
41. … they have become
wealthier in large measure by screwing the United States with a self-serving
trade policy that our political leaders have never been able to fully understand
or counteract.
42. In December 1982 ---
nearly two years after my original application --- the court of appeals ruled
7-0 that the city had improperly refused me an exemption, … (Page 191)
43. … if necessary, he
should have the bulldozers dig up dirt from one side of the site and dump it on
the other. (Page 215)
44. Perhaps no one was
better rewarded by Holiday than I was.
But, in a way, I go something even more valuable than money from the
experience: a first-hand view of
corporate management in America. (Page
223)
45. My first offer to
Hilton was $250 million. … It pays to
trust your instincts. (Page 237-48)
46. I was part of the
problem. As a witness, I was well spoken
and professional, I think --- very much
a contrast to Pete Rozelle. But
that probably played into the NFL’s hands.
From day one, the NFL painted me as a vicious, greedy, Machiavellian
billionaire, intent only on serving my selfish ends at everyone else’s
expense. (Page 295)
47. I never had a master
plan. I just got fed up one day and decided
to do something about it. (Page
301) >>> NOTE: If
there is a chapter you should read entirely, it is Chapter 12 – Ice Capades –
Rebuilding Wollman Rink (Pages 301 – 324).
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