Donald Trump Quotes

I'm really, really worried about the Trump team, and I want people on the team who I think are adults who have judgment and won't do anything stupid.

I think being able to have follow-through, I think a lot of people who are in charge, that is the one quality that you can't forsake. You can get opinions, but you can't have too many cooks in the kitchen when you're envisioning something.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

If you don't have good people, and you don't have a good process and you don't have, at some level, the basic reverence for [presidential] office, and an understanding of the incredible responsibilities and obligations, then, I think you can get into trouble.

And if you're going to be a leader, you know what I ask myself? Would I want to work for you in this job? Would I let my children work for you? Would I give you this job if I wasn't there to provide oversight? If you went to run another company, would I, as an investor, invest in that company?

If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.

It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.