Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States. He was born on July 14, 1946, in New York City. He attended an Ivy League school for college. He graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business before taking over his father’s real estate company, Elizabeth Trump & Son.
President Trump has had many successes in business, including owning, operating, building or licensing over 500 different companies while employing tens of thousands of people worldwide. His success has been attributed to creativity and tenacity, which helped him build some of the world’s most iconic buildings, including Trump Tower (which is now home to both The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library) and Mar-a-Lago, where he spent nearly every weekend after he was inaugurated.
In this blog post, we look at some famous quotes from Donald Trump and implement them in different aspects of our lives.
1. “When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.”
Being a visionary doesn’t mean that one should only look forward and ignore everything else. Sometimes you need to recognize your opponent’s strengths and weaknesses to strategize an appropriate response plan. It also requires a person to have thick skin and not be affected by opposition or critics.
2. “What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”
People are generally at their worst when they are tired or facing problems that look insurmountable. However, it requires mental toughness and tenacity to keep pushing on even in moments of discouragement. More often than not, it takes that one extra push to turn things around.
3. “Somebody has to do something about the trade deficit.”
If somebody doesn’t stand up for what is right, nothing will change. It takes courage and resolves to do something against popular opinion or the status quo, which might be wrong or flawed. Being a visionary requires standing your ground for what you believe in.
4. “The first thing the secretary types is the boss.”
Don’t think for a moment that things will happen on their own. If you want to be successful, you need to take responsibility and play an active role in achieving what you want, whether money or fame. Ideas are good, but action separates an idea from becoming a reality.
5. “The tighter the grip, the more people slip through your fingers.”
Sometimes it’s better to let go of something rather than suffocate it until it dies. This lesson might be difficult to learn, but there are some things that you need to realize aren’t worth fighting for or working so hard for (money, fame and power). If you want to be successful, you need to learn how to walk away from certain things.
6. “What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”
If something doesn’t go your way, there are two possible responses. You can either let it affect you, which will make you miserable, or you can take a positive outlook and use the experience as fuel for motivation. But, again, you have a choice on how to react or respond, so choose wisely.
7. “The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families. When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don’t kid yourself. So when they say they don’t care about their lives, you have to take out their families.”
Sometimes you need to be direct and assertive to achieve your goals. There are times when politeness is appropriate, but there are other times where you need to unleash the raging bull within. You can’t be a passive observer or a bystander who watches as things pass by you. People will only respect your courage and fearlessness.
8. “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 more productive.”
Successful people don’t always win. Imagine if you spent all your life trying to defeat Muhammad Ali. It’s not possible. Even the best lose sometimes, and even though it might be difficult, one must know when to walk away. This quote shows how important it is to disengage rather than continue a battle you will eventually lose.
9. “I wasn’t satisfied to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.”
If you are motivated by making money, it will limit your vision, especially if you look at wealth as an end goal rather than the means to achieve success. Money isn’t everything, and it certainly doesn’t buy happiness, so if you’re just in the game for the green stuff, it will be gone pretty quickly.
10. “I don’t do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.”
If you want something enough and know deep down inside that what you are doing is right, then why should money matter? You can do things because you want to, not because it will eventually make you rich. Money is important but doesn’t fall into the trap of thinking that happiness lies with a fat bank account.
11. “If somebody’s gonna kill me, they wouldn’t warn me ahead of time.”
Don’t fear death because you can’t control it anyway. You don’t know when it’s going to happen, so continue living your life the way you want with no regard for what might happen in the future. Death is one of those things that can come unexpectedly, which is why people shouldn’t worry about something they have no control over.
12. “I’m not afraid of dying; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
You can’t escape death, so stop worrying about it. This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t live your life because someday someone will have to take care of all your responsibilities, but rather that you shouldn’t fear the inevitable. It’s a natural part of life and not something you should stress about.
“A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
If you’re not learning and growing, you are getting left behind. Therefore, you need to constantly adapt to change because if you don’t, your work will become obsolete in no time, and you will be left behind.