Quotes from Donald Trump

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

When I started out in business, I spent a great deal of time researching every detail that might be pertinent to the deal I was interested in making. I still do the same today. People often comment on how quickly I operate, but the reason I can move quickly is that Ive done the background work first, which no one usually sees. I prepare myself thoroughly, and then when it is time to move ahead, I am ready to sprint.

The greatest commodity to own is land. It is finite. God is not making any more of it.

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

We need a great president.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

It's always good to be underestimated.

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

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.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

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.

Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.

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.'

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.

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.

People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.