Donald Trump Quotes

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

My father gave me a very small loan in 1975, and I built it into a company that's worth many, many billions of dollars, with some of the greatest assets in the world, and I say that only because that's the kind of thinking that America needs.

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

The number of people who have successfully scaled a company from dream to post-IPO success - you could list them on the fingers of two hands.

I built a net worth of more than $10 billion. I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.

The reason I do Shark Tank isn't to try take make more money of the deals, even though every deal I want to make money off of and even more so I want the entrepreneurs to be very successful and make money, but Shark Tank sends a message to everybody that the American Dream is alive and well.

I built a massive company, a great company, some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world, worth many, many billions of dollars.

Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.

Profitability is where growth takes place.

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.

Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.

I see opportunities in all my businesses. And the reason is simple. We thrive on countries that are urbanizing.

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.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

I already have enough apparel businesses that are either doing well or not really doing anything at all, and I'm looking to broaden my portfolio.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.