Ivana Quotes & Sayings

I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby and this thing comes over them and changes them. Or there are women who you think are going to be the most doting mother in the world, and then they're not. You don't know how you'll be affected, when that happens. — Ivana Milicevic

Don't get mad. Get everything! — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

In business, you have to be strong. If you are weak, people are going to take advantage. — Ivana Trump

I have a very active social life. It may look glamorous, and it is, but it also takes an enormous amount of time. — Ivana Trump

Don't get mad, get everything. Ivana Trump — Jan Bryndza

It began with a perfect plan. Shape-wise we had a circle, a simple uncomplicated curve to guide us comfortably from one thing to another, an easy predictable ride promising a natural progression from A to B, C and D, and so on until we reached our destination. But somewhere down that smooth line, I think around F, it all went pear-shaped. — Ivana Hruba

For example, if I make money, I put it in real estate. I always did very well. Location, location, location. — Ivana Trump

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Show me success without ego! — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

Life is life, so try to enjoy it. You only have one life. — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

I would rather be a babysitter than a nursemaid — 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. — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

I can ski backwards on one ski. And foldblinded! — Ivana Trump

You have to have the common sense. — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

You don't always marry the love of your life. — Ivana Milicevic

Gorgeous hair is the best revenge. — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

I enjoy doing scenes where I don't wear make-up and I can be raw. I like that. I feel like it's easier to act. When I have to have make-up on, I feel like I'm expected to look a certain way, and then it's harder to act because I'm more self-conscious. — Ivana Milicevic

I'm a lady, and I run my business with dignity. I don't need to be tough. You get nowhere screaming. — Ivana Trump

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! — Ivana Trump

Do not stand downwind from a sweaty person ... — Ivana Hruba

I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all. — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

I'm blonde and bad. — Ivana Milicevic

Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember, don't get mad, get everything. — Ivana Trump

I'm young at heart and dress accordingly. — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

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? — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine. — Ivana Trump

It's a magical way to spend a summer - privacy at sea, and fun and friends in port. — Ivana Trump

I always felt very secure and very safe with real estate. Real estate always appreciates. — Ivana Trump

I feel young at heart, and I feel, like, you know, 40. — Ivana Trump

I wear black all the time. — Ivana Trump

I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I'm not tough, but I'm strong. — Ivana Trump

Before marriage keep your eyes wide open, after marriage keep them half closed. — Ivana Trump

There's nothing my housekeeper does that I can't do - and maybe better! — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

There are three things in life I really don't like: Rice pudding. Social climbers - you know, hang-ons! And the photo shoot! — Ivana Trump

I read this on the gates to a village cemetery: What you are, we used to be. What we are, you're going to be. - It puts things in perspective, doesn't it? — Ivana Hruba

If people see your weaknesses they will take advantage of them. — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

I have good legs, and why to hide them? — Ivana Trump

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. — Ivana Trump

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby, and this thing comes over them and changes them. — Ivana Milicevic

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. — Ivana Trump

As you get older, your tastes get simpler. I like a sleek evening dress with a pair of big earrings. That's all. — Ivana Trump

I've always felt I deserved a wider audience, so thank you for reading this. — Ivana Hruba

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. — Ivana Trump

I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry. — Ivana Milicevic