160+ Donald Trump Quotes – Trump’s Most Notable Quotes

In American legislative issues, few figures have cleared out as permanent a stamp as Donald Trump. During his time as president, he faced a lot of disagreement and attention, but his charm, unique way of communicating, and impressive presence made people remember him in political discussions.

This article delves into 160+ Donald Trump Quotes, focusing on the Most Popular Donald Trump Quotes that have resonated with millions. These quotes have become a part of everyday conversation, reflecting Trump’s influence on the public consciousness.

People always turn to these because They’re clear, easy to remember, and packed with emotion. These quotes have made their mark, whether it’s his directness, how they summarize essential issues, or their ability to stir strong feelings. Whether you are a fan or a faultfinder, the effect of these paramount Trump quotes on our political discourses is verifiable.

Let’s look at over 160 of Donald Trump’s most famous phrases, the sayings that have made their way into regular discussion.

Most Popular Donald Trump Quotes

As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big. –– Donald Trump

 

Sometimes by losing a battle, you find a new way to win the war. – Donald Trump

 

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make . – Donald Trump

 

I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things… My primary consultant is myself, – Donald Trump

No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach. – Donald Trump

 

Play the game. – Donald Trump

 

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. – Donald Trump

 

The media is—really, the word, I think one of the greatest of all terms I’ve come up with—is fake. I guess other people have used it perhaps over the years, but I’ve never noticed it. – Donald Trump

My whole life is about winning. I don’t lose often. I almost never lose. – Donald Trump

 

You have to think anyway, so why not think big. – Donald Trump

 

Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president? I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious? – Donald Trump

 

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

It doesn`t hurt to get more education. – Donald Trump

 

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive. – Donald Trump

 

It’s a blip, not a catastrophe. –  Donald Trump

 

Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love! –  Donald Trump

Everything in life is luck. –  Donald Trump

 

If you love what you do, if you love going to the office if you really like it – not just say it, but really like it – it keeps you young and energized. I really love what I do. –  Donald Trump

 

Exploit your passion. –  Donald Trump

 

The show is ‘Trump.’ And it is sold-out performances everywhere. –  Donald Trump

 

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

After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow…Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming…victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you. –  Donald Trump

 

I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say. –  Donald Trump

 

She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. In my opinion, she was off base. – Donald Trump

 

In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish. – Donald Trump

The country is doing well in so many ways. But there’s such divisiveness. – Donald Trump

 

People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me. – Donald Trump

 

I have a great relationship with the blacks. – Donald Trump

 

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

 

I know words. I have the best words. – Donald Trump

A tiny leak can sink a ship. – Donald Trump

 

We – we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need the brain in this country to turn it around. – Donald Trump

 

Learn from experience. – Donald Trump

 

If you don’t tell people about your success, they probably won’t know about it. – Donald Trump

 

When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it–fight back! – Donald Trump

 

There was no collusion. Everybody knows there was no collusion. – Donald Trump

 

If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead, make your work more pleasurable. – Donald Trump

 

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough. – Donald Trump

 

It’s in the book that he’s got a pathological temper. That’s a big problem because you don’t cure that … as an example: child molesting. You don’t cure these people. You don’t cure a child molester. There’s no cure for it. Pathological, there’s no cure for that. – Donald Trump

 

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. – Donald Trump

 

My whole life has been heated. I like heat, in a certain way. – Donald Trump

 

It’s always good to be underestimated. – Donald Trump

 

I will build a great wall–and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me–and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words. – Donald Trump

 

I’ve always won, and I’m going to continue to win. And that’s the way it is. – Donald Trump

 

I discovered, for the first time but not the last, that politicians don’t care too much what things cost. It’s not their money. – Donald Trump

 

Remember, there’s no such thing as an unrealistic goal–just unrealistic time frames. – Donald Trump

 

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear. – Donald Trump

 

I apologize when I’m wrong. – Donald Trump

 

Getting rich is easy. Staying rich is harder. – Donald Trump

 

It’s not that I’ve suffered a knockout blow. Far from it. But after a long winning streak, I’m being tested under pressure. I’ve also been in the public eye long enough so that the pendulum has swung, and many of the same media people who once put me on a pedestal now can’t wait for me to fall off. People like a hero, a Golden Boy, but many like a fallen hero even better. That was a fact of life long before I came along, and I can handle it. I know that, whatever happens, I’m a survivor — a survivor of success, which is a very rare thing indeed. – Donald Trump

 

There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea. Absolutely. – Donald Trump

 

I’m competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that’s not always a good thing. It can make life complicated. – Donald Trump

 

I wasn’t satisfied to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. – Donald Trump

 

She does have a very nice figure. I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her. – Donald Trump

 

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

 

You are somewhat more traditional politicians (than me). – Donald Trump

 

I don’t like losers. – Donald Trump

 

The beauty of me is that I’m very rich. – Donald Trump

 

Together, We will make America strong again. We will make wealthy again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And yes, together, we will make America great again. Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America. – Donald Trump

And if it can’t be fun, what’s the point? – Donald Trump

 

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks. – Donald Trump

 

Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure. – Donald Trump

 

I always want to think of myself as an underdog. – Donald Trump

 

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

 

I think Eminem is fantastic, and most people think I wouldn’t like Eminem. And did you know my name is in more black songs than any other name in hip-hop? Black entertainers love Donald Trump. Russell Simmons told me that. Russell said, ‘You’re in more hip-hop songs than any other person,’ like five of them lately. That’s a great honor for me. – Donald Trump

 

I only work with the best. – Donald Trump

 

Nobody has a better respect for intelligence than Donald Trump. – Donald Trump

 

I will fight for you with every breath in my body – and I will never, ever let you down. – Donald Trump

 

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is. – Donald Trump

 

I’d like to punch him in the face, I tell ya. – Donald Trump

 

I think my positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with. – Donald Trump

 

I believe that I just have it from my father, from my parents. They had wonderful energy. – Donald Trump

 

It’s freezing and snowing in New York–we need global warming! – Donald Trump

 

I’ve always said, ‘If you need Viagra, you’re probably with the wrong girl. – Donald Trump

 

MY STYLE of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after. – Donald Trump

 

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. – Donald Trump

 

Unite to win. Divide to conquer. – Donald Trump

 

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. – Donald Trump

 

I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit. – Donald Trump

 

The truth was that (being on the cover of Time) didn’t feel like much of anything. There I was, looking out from every newsstand in America, and holding an ace of diamonds in my hand. But in my mind all I could hear, once again, was Peggy Lee singing ‘Is That All There Is? – Donald Trump

 

Rules are meant to be broken. – Donald Trump

 

What a crowd, what a turnout. – Donald Trump

 

I have a great relationship with the Mexican people. – Donald Trump

 

I get called by a guy that can’t buy a pair of pants, I get called names? – Donald Trump

 

I have an attention span that’s as long as it has to be. – Donald Trump

 

It’s idealistic, it’s wonderful, it’s a beautiful thing. – Donald Trump

 

My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person. – Donald Trump

 

Our country is in serious trouble. We don’t have any victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don’t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say China, in a trade deal? I beat China all the time. All the time. – Donald Trump

 

Politicians can’t manage. All they can do is talk. – Donald Trump

 

Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority. – Donald Trump

 

Where there’s a will, there’s away. – Donald Trump

 

The harder you work, the luckier you get. – Donald Trump

 

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity. – Donald Trump

 

The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don’t, things are going to head in a direction that’s going to be almost impossible to recover from. – Donald Trump

 

You think I’m going to change? I’m not changing. – Donald Trump

 

Your business, and your brand, must first let people know what you care about, and that you care about them. – Donald Trump

 

I don’t blame China, I blame the incompetence of past Admins for allowing China to take advantage of the U.S. on trade leading up to a point where the U.S. is losing $100’s of billions. How can you blame China for taking advantage of people that had no clue? I would’ve done same! – Donald Trump

 

We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny. – Donald Trump

 

I’ve been successful with your girlfriend, I’ll tell you that. …I took her away like he was a dog. …While you were getting onto the plane to go to California thinking that she was your girlfriend, she was someplace that you wouldn’t have been very happy with. – Donald Trump

 

A lot of people don’t like to win. They actually don’t know how to win, and they don’t like to win because down deep inside they don’t want to win. – Donald Trump

 

He was a great cheerleader for the country. But not great on the trade. – Donald Trump

 

The harder I work, the luckier I get. When you have momentum going, play the momentum. – Donald Trump

 

I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything. – Donald Trump

 

It is time to show the whole world that America is back – bigger and better and stronger than ever before. – Donald Trump

 

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. – Donald Trump

 

I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got much more than I’ll ever need. I do it, to do it. – Donald Trump

 

I play into people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. – Donald Trump

 

You’ve thrown our budget a little out of whack. – Donald Trump

 

The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place. – Donald Trump

 

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot people and I wouldn’t lose voters. – Donald Trump

 

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It’s not that they have to sink the putt and there’s a great deal of talent involved – but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest. – Donald Trump

 

I never did polling on that. I don’t know if that’s popular. I don’t know if that’s unpopular. – Donald Trump

 

We have a 5 billion dollar website. I have so many websites. I have them all over the place… I hire people… it costs me three dollars. – Donald Trump

 

We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation. – Donald Trump

 

Leverage: don’t make deals without it. Enhance. – Donald Trump

 

I’ll drink water. Sometimes tomato juice, which I like. Sometimes orange juice, which I like. I’ll drink different things. But the Coke or Pepsi boosts you up a little. – Donald Trump

 

Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest — and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure. It’s not your fault. – Donald Trump

Despite the constant negative press coffee. – Donald Trump

 

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina. – Donald Trump

 

Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing. – Donald Trump

 

I’ve been making deals all my life. – Donald Trump

 

You go to the hospital. You have a broken arm. You come out, you are a drug addict with this crap. – Donald Trump

 

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me–consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected. – Donald Trump

 

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States. – Donald Trump

 

Contrary to what a lot of people think, I don’t enjoy doing press. I’ve been asked the same questions a million times now, and I don’t particularly like talking about my personal life. – Donald Trump

 

The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems. – Donald Trump

 

Every successful person has a very large ego. – Donald Trump

 

Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me ‘old,’ when I would NEVER call him ‘short and fat?’ Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend – and maybe someday that will happen! – Donald Trump

 

If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don’t have a country. – Donald Trump

 

I think that putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing. …I don’t want to sound too much like a chauvinist, but when I come home and dinner’s not ready, I’ll go through the roof, okay? – Donald Trump

 

In real life, if I were firing you, I’d tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that’s different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It’s not a very pleasant thing. I don’t like firing people. – Donald Trump

 

And nobody knows what a community college is. – Donald Trump

 

My Twitter has become so powerful that I can actually make my enemies tell the truth. – Donald Trump

 

We will get our people off of welfare and back to work – rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor. – Donald Trump

 

The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves. but they can get very excited by those who do. That is why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest, the greatest and the most spectacular. – Donald Trump

 

If you get good ratings, they’ll cover you even if you have nothing to say. – Donald Trump

 

Because I’ve been successful, make money, get headlines, and have authored bestselling books, I have a better chance to make my ideas public than do people who are less well known. – Donald Trump

 

It’s just fake. It’s fake. It’s made-up stuff. It’s disgraceful what happens, but that happens in the—that happens in the world of politics. – Donald Trump

 

I own buildings. I’m a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build as I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot. – Donald Trump

 

We’re all fighting battles, but I love fighting these battles.  – Donald Trump

 

Before a show, I’ll go backstage and everyone’s getting dressed, and everything else, and you know, no men are anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it…You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that. – Donald Trump

 

Every day, I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored, and abandoned. I have visited the laid-off factory workers and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country. – Donald Trump

 

When people are in a focused state, the words “I can’t,” “I’ll try,” “I’ll do it tomorrow,” and “maybe” get forced out of their vocabularies. – Donald Trump

 

First and foremost, I’m a real estate person. And that’s what I love the most. – Donald Trump

 

Some people have the ability to negotiate … It’s an art you’re basically born with. You either have it or you don’t. – Donald Trump

 

Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money is a little short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. – Donald Trump

 

Do not let anyone tell you it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again. – Donald Trump

 

We have triumphed over evil as nobody has seen before. – Donald Trump

 

I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. – Donald Trump

 

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn’t exactly been one of moderation. – Donald Trump

 

Do not spend too much time planning or trying to anticipate and solve problems before they happen. That is just another kind of excuse for procrastination. Until you start, you won’t know where the problems will occur. You won’t have the experience to solve them. Instead, get into action, and solve the problems as they arise. – Donald Trump

 

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me. – Donald Trump

 

If I told the real stories of my experiences with women, often seemingly very happily married and important women, this book would be a guaranteed best-seller. – Donald Trump

 

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action. – Donald Trump

 

The past does not have to define the future. – Donald Trump

 

I’m their worst nightmare. – Donald Trump

 

I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television. – Donald Trump

 

You do your job, you keep your job. Do it well, you get a better job. – Donald Trump

 

I’ve become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world. – Donald Trump

 

Oftentimes when I was sleeping with one of the top women in the world I would say to myself, thinking about me as a boy from Queens, ‘Can you believe what I am getting? – Donald Trump

 

My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person. – Donald Trump

 

I believe it’s a rough situation over there. There’s no question about it. – Donald Trump

 

Ariana Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man–he made a good decision. – Donald Trump

 

It’s tangible, it’s solid, it’s beautiful. It’s artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. – Donald Trump

 

I have a very simple rule when it comes to management: hire the best people from your competitors, pay them more than they were earning, and give them bonuses and incentives based on their performance. That’s how you build a first-class operation. – Donald Trump

 

America will start winning again, winning like never before. – Donald Trump

 

My wife, Ivana, is a brilliant manager. I will pay her one dollar a year and all the dresses she can buy. – Donald Trump

 

I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me. – Donald Trump

We got more money. We got more brains. We got better houses, apartments. We got nicer boats. We’re smarter than they are. And they say, ‘The elite. – Donald Trump

 

My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body. – Donald Trump

 

Today, and I’m very strongly against tax increases. – Donald Trump

 

The other people I don’t take too seriously are the critics—except when they stand in the way of my projects. In my opinion, they mostly write to impress each other, and they’re just as swayed by fashions as anyone else. One week it’s spare glass towers they are praising to the skies. The next week, they’ve rediscovered old, and they’re celebrating detail and ornamentation. – Donald Trump

 

I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I’m very proud of the job I did. – Donald Trump

 

Sometimes journalist attacks have little to do with the pursuit of truth. They are personal vendettas disguised as objective reporting. – Donald Trump

 

I’ve met some great people that deal with me in the press. I’ve also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly. – Donald Trump

 

We’re going to win at space. – Donald Trump

 

I take advantage of the laws of the nation. Because I’m running a company. – Donald Trump

 

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 regulations are going through the roof. It’s almost impossible to get anything done in the country. – Donald Trump

 

One thing I’ve learned about the press is that they’re always hungry for a good story, and the more sensational the better. It’s in the nature of the job, and I understand that. The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, – Donald Trump

 

I think I was born with a drive for success because I have a certain gene. – Donald Trump

 

Great pillows. I actually use them, believe it or not. – Donald Trump

 

I Have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke. – Donald Trump

 

As far as single-payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. – Donald Trump

He was also efficient and gave me his four-step formula for success: 1. Get in. 2. Get it done. 3. Get it done right. 4. And get out. – Donald Trump

 

I think the thing I’m worst at is managing the press. – Donald Trump

 

You know, I was dealt a lot of bad hands. – Donald Trump

 

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

 

Our military has to be strengthened. Our vets have to be taken care of. We have to end Obamacare, and we have to make our country great again, and I will do that. – Donald Trump

 

In general, my philosophy is to stay as close to home as possible. Travel is time-consuming and, in my opinion, boring — especially compared with the fun I have done deals in my office. I can never understand people who say that if they had a lot of money they would spend their time traveling. It’s just not my thing. –  Donald Trump

 

He may have had a bad past. Who knows, you know? He may have had some, I think, accusations made. Didn’t he have a couple of things in his past? –  Donald Trump

 

I’m not a schmuck. Even if the world is going to hell in a hand-basket, I won’t lose a penny. –  Donald Trump

I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera. –  Donald Trump

I do whine because I want to win, and I’m not happy about not winning, and I am a whiner, and I keep whining and whining until I win. –  Donald Trump

 

Even one of them recently said that President Trump made promises, but he’s kept many more promises. I mean, far more than I made. –  Donald Trump

 

No, I have no age — I mean, I have an age limit. I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.” — Trump on whether or not he has an age limit for women he sleeps with. –  Donald Trump

 

I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life. –  Donald Trump

 

My attitude is if somebody’s willing to pay me $225,000 to make a speech, it seems stupid not to show up. You know why I’ll do it? Because I don’t think anyone’s ever been paid that much. –  Donald Trump

 

To be honest — I’ll be honest, I thought it was a — I thought it was very close to complete victory. –  Donald Trump

 

If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut. –  Donald Trump

 

I will never change this hairstyle, I like it. It fits my head. Those who criticize me are only losers and envy people. And it is not a wig, it’s my hair. Do you want to touch it? –  Donald Trump

 

I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything. –  Donald Trump

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