Never Enough Quotes

“For the most part, you can’t respect people because most people aren’t worthy of respect. —DONALD TRUMP In”
― Michael D'Antonio, Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

“Skating along with the key details of his deal unresolved, Trump promoted it with great confidence. Here he exhibited many of the traits that social scientists would eventually ascribe to high achievers. First he set an ambitious goal. Then he focused on it relentlessly, devoting years of effort to the task and refusing to be deterred by obstacles that would have stopped someone with less confidence. Trump held a vivid image of the new hotel in his mind’s eye and refused any suggestion that his tender age, his lack of experience, or the conditions of the marketplace would prevent it from becoming real.”
― Michael D'Antonio, Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

“For much of his life Cohn faced an almost constant threat of prosecution on charges related to his tax returns—IRS officials ultimately pegged his debt at $7 million—and his professional conduct. (He once put a pen in a comatose man’s hand in an attempt to get a signature on an amendment to his will.) Although repeated efforts were made to prosecute or discipline him through the bar association, all but one failed. The last, which ended with the revocation of his law license, occurred just prior to Cohn’s death in 1986 at age fifty-nine. More”
― Michael D'Antonio, Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

“He had envisioned a river of rent payments from apartments and businesses that would eventually pay off his financiers and yield millions of dollars in net revenues even as inflation drove up the value of the property. This formula—investment + time = revenue and higher value—was the magic of real estate. By following it, Fred Trump had amassed assets that allowed him to develop ever bigger projects while simultaneously reducing the risk to his personal fortune.”
― Michael D'Antonio, Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

“At their best, old-fashioned military academies saved students from delinquency. At their worst, they drove boys to it by subjecting them to a culture that valued dominance, violence, and subversion of authorities. The experience is brilliantly told in Pat Conroy’s novel The Lords of Discipline, which depicts life at a military college similar to The Citadel in South Carolina. Although Conroy writes with both dismay and affection, others have offered a more scathing evaluation of these places. In his memoir, Breakshot, former mobster Kenny Gallo noted that his military boarding-school experience transformed him from “a disorderly brat into an orderly outlaw.” Recalling his career at Army and Navy Academy in California, Gallo writes, “I guess you could say my ‘normal’ social development stopped at military school when I was thirteen; I stopped developing as a healthy adult citizen and, first out of self defense and then out of pleasure, began honing my skills as a predator.”7 As”
― Michael D'Antonio, Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

“One man’s real estate crisis is another’s opportunity. All markets work in this way, providing investors with cash the chance to buy—stocks, bonds, real estate, and commodities—when prices are depressed. This reality is devoid of emotional weight and is the basic truth that keeps capitalist economies working.”
― Michael D'Antonio, Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

“Ever provocative, Trump gained attention by expressing raw and unrefined thoughts rather than nuanced reflections. In his calculation, honesty comes from the corner of his heart that is willing to fling insults and divide the world into enemies and friends.”
― Michael D'Antonio, Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

“Gleefully aggressive, Trump looks for opportunities to take offense and then wrestle a supposed enemy into the gutter.”
― Michael D'Antonio, Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

“When it comes to racism and racists,” Trump said, “I am the least racist person there is.” When”
― Michael D'Antonio, Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

“converting celebrity into profit. (No matter how many billions he has, we are still talking about billions.) Somehow he has done this even as a substantial proportion of the population, arguably more than 50 percent, consider him a buffoon if not a menace. What does it say about Trump that he is so undeniably successful by the two measures that matter the most to him—money and fame? And what, pray tell, does it say about us? * * *”
― Michael D'Antonio, The Truth About Trump

“If Donald Trump is squealing like a stuck pig,” replied Koch, “I must have done something right.” Trump called the mayor a “moron,” and Koch taunted him with “Piggy, piggy, piggy.” The”
― Michael D'Antonio, The Truth About Trump

“An intensely competitive young man who believed he was superior to others, Trump accepted that people would seek advantages wherever they could find them.”
― Michael D'Antonio, Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

“As the press also reported abuses by some recipients, welfare was symbolized, in many minds, by the image of working-age black women with children who maintained secret relationships with men who refused to care for their dependents. These “welfare queens” represented a tiny criminal element among recipients, but their existence, and attendant press accounts about them, were enough to make welfare a code word that communicated racist assumptions.10 Did”
― Michael D'Antonio, Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

“The youngest of ten children, Mary Anne MacLeod was born in 1912 in her parents’ home in the village of Tong on the rugged Scottish Isle of Lewis, which is closer to Iceland than London. She was descended from two clans, the Smiths and MacLeods, with deep roots in the Hebrides.”
― Michael D'Antonio, Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different. —DONALD TRUMP Perched”
― Michael D'Antonio, Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success