Product Description

In Trump 101, Trump himself becomes your personal mentor and coach as he shares tips, tactics, and strategies, all designed to help you make the most of yourself, your career, and your life. Each chapter covers a basic rule or belief, and shows you how to make it work for you. Learn the vital qualities and skills that every successful businessperson needs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76047 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470047101
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

From Booklist
This collection of Trump's wisdom, inspiration, and advice is organized around 20 distinctive motivational themes, including "Don't Waste Your Life on Work You Don't Love," "Set the Bar High," "Tough It Out: Be Persistent," "The Proof Is in the Doing: Learn by Doing and Taking Risks," "Your Gut Is Your Best Advisor: Listen to Your Instincts," "Negotiate to Win: Use Diplomacy," "Swim against the Tide: The Comfort Zone Can Pull You Under," "Wait for the Right Pitch: Business Success Is All about Patience and Timing," and "Do More--Always Do More: Constantly Try to Top Yourself." Although this is clearly a high-profile public-relations effort, Trump's insight and business principles offer valuable lessons. Mary Whaley
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Review
Read this…Do say: "Show me the money." Don't say: "You're fired."' ( The Guardian, December 2006)

Read this...Do say: "Show me the money." Don't say: "You're fired."' ( The Guardian, December 2006)

From the Inside Flap
Being successful in business requires much more than hard work and good ideas. You have to be persistent, tough, confident, curious, flexible, passionate, patient, and in love with what you're doing. You were probably born with some of these qualities; the rest, you can and must develop. Now, you can learn them from the very best—Donald Trump.

In Trump 101, Trump himself becomes your personal mentor and coach as he shares tips, tactics, and strategies, all designed to help you make the most of yourself, your career and your life.

In his singular, no-nonsense style, Trump gives you smart, vital information. Each chapter contains a basic rule or belief, and shows you how to make it work for you. You'll also find challenging questions submitted to Trump on his popular Trump University blog, along with frank and honest answers.

Discover what Trump can teach you about the most important qualities and skills that every businessperson needs. The world's greatest dealmaker shows you how to:

• Find the work you love and do it
• Set high standards and meet them
• Think Trump-scale
• Negotiate to win
• Be tough, not nasty
• Turn problems, even disasters, into gold
• Concentrate on your target
• And much, much more

If, like Donald Trump, you're a busy person, caught up in the relentless race to learn, adapt to constant change, and do more, faster, and better than ever before, Trump 101 fits right into your hectic schedule. Each brief, pithy entry delivers hard-won wisdom guaranteed to raise both your spirits and your business prospects right now.

As Trump emphasizes repeatedly, knowledge is power. If you're searching for the knowledge that will power your career far beyond your wildest dreams, there's only one place to start—Trump 101.

Customer Reviews

An Awesome Trump Book!
I listened to Trump at the Learning Annex Real Estate Expo in New York two months ago, and was a little dissappointed with his speech because he spent a lot of time bragging about how smart he was and very little time teaching us his secrets. He did give us ten tips but did not really elaborate on them. Therefore, when I first saw this book Trump 101, I didn't expect that I would like it. I thought it would be just another tool to show off his wealth and smartness, but I am glad I was wrong. This is a very concise yet powerful and inspirational book. It introduces and very well explains 33 secrets of his success, including passion, thinking big, setting high standards, living with excellence, working hard, doing a lot of preparation before going into a deal, being confident and thinking positively, etc. These are very practical advice so you can apply it in your real life instantly. To make the best of this book, you should not read it lightly. You really have to think deeply about your life and your business approach and digest the book thoroughly with your mind and heart. For anyone who is thinking of running a business, this is a great coach. I myself have been considering starting my own business lately and Trump has definitely pointed me into the right direction: To be successful, you have to do what you really love, not just what makes money. If you do what you love and do it well, money will follow. A lot of the time people are caught up in jobs or businesses just for the money itself. However, you will soon lose your passion and then likely the money too. Remember something very true that Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki both believe in, the biggest asset in your life is time, and don't waste it on work you don't love!

Finally
Finally, after releasing the God awful "How to Think Like a Billionaire", Trump hits his stride in "Trump 101". I'd say Trump 101 is the best since "The Art of the Deal", which was excellent.

This book is very good. Trump 101 crystalizes The Donald's advice. There is almost no filler in this book.

In a nutshell, what I learned from Trump 101 is that you need to have tremendous passion, drive and work ethic to really make it.

You will not be dissapointed in this book, I promise!!

Like Having Coffee Every Day with Donald Trump
This is not a deep book. But if you keep in mind that this is Trump 101 and not Trump 475, you may really like it. The book is intended to introduce Trump University, but it does not beat this into the ground. Instead, it's more like having coffee every day for a month with Donald Trump in which he talks to you about important principles for success.

Mostly, this book is about attitude. Thirty-three (33) short, easy-to-read chapters are as inviting and encouraging as they are interesting and entertaining. From "Don't waste your life on work you don't love," to "stay focused on what matters most or you could be expelled," Trump encourages positive, forward-thinking, informed, realistic, and focused energy. "Energy," he says, "is the key to accomplishment. Harness your energy and you will have the ability to achieve your goals." Above all he emphasizes (1) learning your area of interest "inside out" and (2) hard work. My personal favorite quote from the book is this:

"If you really want to succeed in business, you have to work at it every day. I do. The big time isn't for slackers. When you work at it, an amazing thing occurs: You accumulate an incredible body of knowledge in your area of expertise and develop the uncanny ability to make the right calls consistently. Getting to this level is an awesome achievement; it's the essence of success."

Highly autobiographical, this book comes across as informational, inspirational, and even warm. A large number of pictures of Trump buildings and personal shots punctuate the book. The book is a great place to start or even to come back to for success basics.

Personally, I wish he'd talked a bit about the bankruptcy woes of his casino business; he does talk about his "lowest point" when he was $9 billion in debt, sloshing through a downpour for 15 blocks at 3:00 A.M. to meet with "a bevy of international bankers to whom I owed money." It's all a general description, but it is still interesting and helps you feel like he's not just spouting theory.

The book doesn't come to any conclusion, it just stops. Even so, it's a great book, well worth the read. For a 101 reader, it is excellent.