Quotes from Ivana Trump

I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent. Forget about it.

For example, if I make money, I put it in real estate. I always did very well. Location, location, location.

We think about all of our tomorrows, but we don't know how many there are, so let's start making the most of our Todays!

Life is meant for living.. I know that sounds simplistic, but how many days do you let slip by without really doing something, accomplishing something, making a life change, a lifestyle change?

I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.

In business, you have to be strong. If you are weak, people are going to take advantage.

You have to have the common sense.

I have a very active social life. It may look glamorous, and it is, but it also takes an enormous amount of time.

When I was doing poorly at school, my father yanked me out and got me a job in a shoe factory. After three weeks, I begged him to give me another chance at doing well in school. I learned that discipline is necessary to accomplish anything in life.

As you get older, your tastes get simpler. I like a sleek evening dress with a pair of big earrings. That's all.

One should never live with regrets or with 'what if.' I've loved the good times, and I have learned from the bad. All in all, it's been a pretty fabulous life for me.

From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in '72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn't stop when you stop skiing.

I have good legs, and why to hide them?

I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I'm not tough, but I'm strong.

Show me success without ego!

Looking good is the best revenge.

Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press's microscope. But I have a feeling it's a full and active club now.

I always felt very secure and very safe with real estate. Real estate always appreciates.

I'm a single parent, a working mother, an executive, and an author. My greatest accomplishment will be to raise three wonderful children.

There are three things in life I really don't like: Rice pudding. Social climbers - you know, hang-ons! And the photo shoot!

Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine.

In each of my homes, I have a leopard room. I don't know why, but I do. It's like my lounge next to the dressing rooms.

There's nothing my housekeeper does that I can't do - and maybe better!

I wear black all the time.