Donald Trump Quotes

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.

In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to find what's behind my decision. It's simple. I have always believed that every person, especially public officials, must understand when it is time to move on. For me, that time is now.

There is a time in the life of every predicament where it is ripe for resolution. Emotions provide the cue to act when a problem is big enough to see, yet still small enough to solve. By understanding your emotions, you can move adeptly through your current challenges and prevent future ones.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me.

I think my mantra for saying yes to anything is just, 'Oh, I think that'll be a cool, interesting project,' or - sadly! - 'Ooh, this will help my career.'

When you're being asked to think about the meaning of your intuitions before you act on them, maybe along the way you decide your intuitions are destructive or make no sense at all. And then you don't act on them.

As the years go by, you have to realise when it is the right time to do something different.

I've grown tactically and technically.

It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.

The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important. The thing is, I suppose, a younger person may not correctly divine the right time, because of lack of life experience, so the older woman may have the advantage of truly knowing if it's right or not.

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.

It's not enough to be talented. It's not enough to work hard and to study late into the night. You must also become intimately aware of the methods you use to reach your decisions.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

I know when things are good or bad.

When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.

Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.