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.

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.

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 make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.