If you don’t encounter setbacks in your career, if you don’t have doubts and disappointments, let me tell you, you’re not dreaming big enough.
If you want to know how to solve society’s problems, you start out with better public education.
You must first be willing to fail – and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.
In business, when you fail at something, when something doesn’t work, you say okay, we’ve learned that that’s not a path to go down.
I’ve always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.
You bet I did and I enjoyed it.
The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.
I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. It’s like a wet dream.
I never liked anyone who didn’t have a temper. If you don’t have a temper, you don’t have any passion.
We have an energy policy – we’re transferring our wealth to overseas to a bunch of countries that don’t have the same values as us. In some cases, they’re using our money to finance terrorism against us.
If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.
If you want to do something for your children and show how much you love them, the single best thing-by far-is to support organizations that will create a better world for them and their children.
What has changed is that people have stopped working together.
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody’s got to pay for them so they’re a necessary evil.
I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.
Nobody wants a job where they don’t have authority to go along with the responsibility. Quite the contrary. The more authority you give people, the better people you can attract, and the harder they’re going to work, and the more loyal they are going to be.
I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.
You’re entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.
After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.
I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.