Top 49 Quotes & Sayings by Ivana Trump

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Czechoslovakian celebrity Ivana Trump.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Ivana Trump

Ivana Maria Trump was a Czech-American businesswoman, media personality, fashion designer, author, and model. Ivana lived in Canada in the 1970s before relocating to the United States and marrying Donald Trump in 1977. She held key managerial positions in The Trump Organization as vice president of interior design, as CEO and president of Trump's Castle casino resort, and as manager of the Plaza Hotel.

For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy.
I tell you, if I'm going to go through a divorce, I would date again a younger man. Because I have so much energy, there's no way an older man can keep up with me.
Don't get mad. Get everything! — © Ivana Trump
Don't get mad. Get everything!
I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.
I can ski backwards on one ski. And foldblinded!
From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in '72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn't stop when you stop skiing.
As you get older, your tastes get simpler. I like a sleek evening dress with a pair of big earrings. That's all.
I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.
I have a very active social life. It may look glamorous, and it is, but it also takes an enormous amount of time.
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
There are three things in life I really don't like: Rice pudding. Social climbers - you know, hang-ons! And the photo shoot!
Life is life, so try to enjoy it. You only have one life.
I believe that two people can meet and enrich each other's lives. I'd say that about my parents. But I think it is harder and harder to commit to only one person in a lifetime.
I'm young at heart and dress accordingly. — © Ivana Trump
I'm young at heart and dress accordingly.
New York City is a very tough place. I'm tough, too. When people give me a punch in the nose, I react by getting even tougher.
For example, if I make money, I put it in real estate. I always did very well. Location, location, location.
In each of my homes, I have a leopard room. I don't know why, but I do. It's like my lounge next to the dressing rooms.
Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press's microscope. But I have a feeling it's a full and active club now.
In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years.
I feel young at heart, and I feel, like, you know, 40.
I'm a lady, and I run my business with dignity. I don't need to be tough. You get nowhere screaming.
You have to have the common sense.
Generally, I think America is America. America has been through suffering like other countries, but America will come up. I have no doubt. It's just going to bounce. You know, you have ups and downs.
I wear black all the time.
I have good legs, and why to hide them?
There's nothing my housekeeper does that I can't do - and maybe better!
Looking good is the best revenge.
When I was doing poorly at school, my father yanked me out and got me a job in a shoe factory. After three weeks, I begged him to give me another chance at doing well in school. I learned that discipline is necessary to accomplish anything in life.
I always felt very secure and very safe with real estate. Real estate always appreciates.
Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.
In business, you have to be strong. If you are weak, people are going to take advantage.
Travelling so much, sometimes my luggage goes astray. But I can get the right stuff sent to me overnight by a special shipper. No big deal.
I'm a single parent, a working mother, an executive, and an author. My greatest accomplishment will be to raise three wonderful children. — © Ivana Trump
I'm a single parent, a working mother, an executive, and an author. My greatest accomplishment will be to raise three wonderful children.
What I know is that my upbringing was always the man was the head of the family. It's a European tradition. We always look up to the man. But this is old times. Now what I believe is that I'm definitely equal.
One should never live with regrets or with 'what if.' I've loved the good times, and I have learned from the bad. All in all, it's been a pretty fabulous life for me.
I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent. Forget about it.
I like to live. I like to dance. I like to eat. I like to work and I like my family. I like to enjoy. And.. knock on wood.. it's nice that I can live this way.
I would rather be a babysitter than a nursemaid
Don't get mad. Get everything. - (on divorce).
We think about all of our tomorrows, but we don't know how many there are, so let's start making the most of our Todays!
I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent.
If people see your weaknesses they will take advantage of them.
It's a magical way to spend a summer - privacy at sea, and fun and friends in port.
Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember, don't get mad, get everything. — © Ivana Trump
Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember, don't get mad, get everything.
Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open to such deals, and they will come, I assure you.
Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine.
Show me success without ego!
I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I'm not tough, but I'm strong.
Life is meant for living.. I know that sounds simplistic, but how many days do you let slip by without really doing something, accomplishing something, making a life change, a lifestyle change?
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