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| Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life | 
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Sales Rank: 364889
Category: Book
Authors: Donald J. Trump, Meredith Mciver
Publisher: Random House
Studio: Random House
Manufacturer: Random House
Label: Random House
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 1400063558
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.409
EAN: 9781400063550
ASIN: 1400063558
Publication Date: October 12, 2004
Release Date: October 12, 2004
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Product Description
It’s not good enough to want it. You’ve got to know how to get it. Real estate titan, bestselling author, and TV star Donald J. Trump is the man to teach you the billionaire mind-set–how to think about money, career skills, and life. Here is crucial advice on investing in real estate from the expert, everything from dealing with brokers to renovating to assessing the value of property, buying and selling, and securing a mortgage. Trump will show you how to cut costs, decide how much risk to assume in your investments, and divide up your portfolio. He’ll also teach you how to impress anyone, how to correct or criticize someone effectively, and how to know if your friends are loyal–everything you need to know to get ahead.
And once you’ve earned your money, you’ve got to learn to spend it well. Trump presents his consumer guide to the best things in life, from wine to golf clubs to engagement rings. Check out the billionaire lifestyle–how they shop and what they buy. Even if you’re not superwealthy, you can afford many of these luxuries.
And what look inside the Trump world would be complete without The Apprentice? Trump will take you behind the scenes, from the end of season one and into season two, with insights into the making and the meaning of TV’s hottest show.
As Donald Trump proves, getting rich is easy. Staying rich is harder. Your chances are better, and you’ll have more fun, if you think like a billionaire. This is the book that will help you make a real difference in your life.
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It’s not good enough to want it. You’ve got to know how to get it. Real estate titan, bestselling author, and TV star Donald J. Trump is the man to teach you the billionaire mind–set—how to think about money, career skills, and life. Here is crucial advice on investing in real estate from the expert, everything from dealing with brokers to renovating to assessing the value of property, buying and selling, and securing a mortgage. Trump will show you how to cut costs, decide how much risk to assume in your investments, and divide up your portfolio. He’ll also teach you how to impress anyone, how to correct or criticize someone effectively, and how to know if your friends are loyal—everything you need to know to get ahead. And once you’ve earned your money, you’ve got to learn to spend it well. Trump presents his consumer guide to the best things in life, from wine to golf clubs to engagement rings. Check out the billionaire lifestyle—how they shop and what they buy. Even if you’re not superwealthy, you can afford many of these luxuries. And what look inside the Trump world would be complete without The Apprentice? Trump will take you behind the scenes, from the end of season one and into season two, with insights into the making and the meaning of TV’s hottest show. As Donald Trump proves, getting rich is easy. Staying rich is harder. Your chances are better, and you’ll have more fun, if you think like a billionaire. This is the book that will help you make a real difference in your life.
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 Do not buy!!!! June 16, 2008
If your looking for a book about a guy that's full of himself, this is it. If your looking for a book about finance, real estate and making money, this isn't it! Plus, he adds a section about The Apprentice at the end, it really didn't help me out one bit. I was really disappointed in this book, wasn't at all what I thought it would be.
Absolute rubbish April 8, 2008
Complete waste of time and money. I wish I'd never bought it, save yourself the mistake.
 Practical? No. Fun to read? Yes! March 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Think like a billionaire. Not that hard to do when you are one. More difficult for the average reader I guess. But hey, aim your arrow at the moon and you'll hit the mountain. I'll settle for a million or ten.
Most of the reader reviews find this book a one-star crap thing. I strongly disagree, because you should know by know The Donald will not take you by the hand and let you make your first million.
You want good advice? Better get his first book "The Art of the Deal" which teaches you some. But thinking like a billionaire is just like writing like a billionaire; he probably had two minutes to dictate per chapter.
Despite all this, it was fun to read. What goes on in a billionaire's life and it just make you dream about being succesful as well, as long if you're not succesful already. Fun to read, crap advise. Four stars.
 Worth it's weight in Billions . . . November 19, 2007
This is one book I could not put down once I started reading it. With Mr. Trump's decades of experience and knowledge gained throughout today's aggressive world of business, his distinguishing insights are compacted into this brief and tiny work, projecting both his shrewd business smarts along with a non-negotiable 'mental toughness' that every successful business person should be learning from... and who better to be learning from than from 'the Donald.' I recommend this book to anyone who's interested in developing a deeper level of entrepreneurial insight within the world of business and real estate, as well as the financial IQ of, well, ... a billionaire. The diamonds are buried throughout this book, and must be sought after with one's trusty ... yellow highlighter. A must read for anyone who's set on becoming a more perceptive business investor / real estate professional / aspiring entrepreneur.
 Well, he DOES think like a billionaire ... November 7, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
... and that means that he doesn't think like the rest of us do, obviously. Just read this book and shake your head at some of his takes on the basics of real life. Most of his advice is to hire someone who will do your work for you: financial advisors, attorneys, interior decorators, landscapers, cooks, etc. In spite of the subtitle's inference, this volume is NOT the self-help book it appears to be, and that's one reason why you see so many low-starred reviews attached to it.
I've read a fair number of books by and about Donald Trump, so I guess I might as well weigh in on this one. It's been three years since it was released, and I'm only now taking the time (just a day or two) to read it. Much has happened since these pages were published. The book was written just after the flamboyant finale of The Apprentice's opening season. Donald Trump was still riding that high, getting used to his gigantic leap in popularity and publicity; being swarmed by people on the street, pointing to him and squealing, "You're fired!" And while Donald was working on this series of brief chapters, he was also getting engaged to girlfriend Melania Knauss. Here we are, three short years later. Five Apprentices have been hired; and in addition to all the losing candidates, Donald fired Carolyn Kepcher. He married Melania, and they have a son, Baron. He founded Trump University, an online business educational service. He released more books and is building more buildings. Time flies.
But back in 2004 when this book came out, it followed the pattern Trump set in his previous book, How to Get Rich -- one he liked so much that he used it again and again in subsequent volumes penned together with employee and coauthor Meredith McIver. By now we know the pattern. Dole out some advice. Expound on favorite topics. Promote current personal initiatives. Name-drop. Evaluate people, events, or projects on a scale that ranges from terrific to total disaster. Then offer the readers an insight into the day-to-day Trump world by sharing a week's worth of work with them. It can all be quite interesting reading, if you're in the right mind-set when you sit down with this book. Take it as a mere glance into the world of the glitterati. Don't gather up these words as complete guidance for your own life.
The only true annoyance for me here was the selection of photos that accompanied the text. Of course we would expect to see Trump posed with any number of celebrities, or out on the town with his fiance. But do we really need to turn to the first glossy photo section, only to see Melania nearly bursting out of a strapless black evening dress, stretched out on a white baby grand piano? If that's not a slap in the reader's face -- look-at-what-I-have-that-you-don't-and-never-will -- I don't know what is.
Those readers who are truly looking for some reasonable advice from Trump and his associates should pick up one of the newer volumes in the Trump University series: Trump 101 is a good start. Field-specific titles continue the lessons: Marketing 101, Real Estate 101, Entrepreneurship 101, Wealth Building 101. It's bad news for Meredith McIver, for Donald seems to have dropped her as a coauthor in favor of linking up with experts in those fields. But maybe that's good news for the rest of us.
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