Trump: Think Like a Billionaire : Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life

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Summary: Billionairhood 101
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This is a super-hot book! It gets you energized and motivated to go
out and ACHIEVE! For those who have never read anything by Mr. Trump, it will surely be an EYE-OPENING experience to get his views on making the most out of life. His attitude reminds me of the ideas of Tony Robbins in his book "Giant Steps" and also of Clint Arthur, whose DVD "New Sex Now"
extolls the same virtues of getting the most out of everything you do.

Great job Mssrs Trump, Robbins, and Arthur!

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Summary: Complete fluff -- fire the Donald
Review: Donald Trump has written some interesting and useful books (The Art of the Deal, Surviving at the Top) but his Think Like a Billionaire is complete fluff. Purporting to be "everything you need to know about success, real estate and life," his advice is short and simplistic. He does a list of the best of various things and cites McDonalds as the best hamburger in the world.
Many of the photos have the first name of people who are not mentioned in the text. The end of the book has photos of his employees with no names at all. His fiancee Melania is in just about every picture with a strange glare on her face--very unbecoming. Is she trying to imitate the Trump grimace? Trump prides himself on being the epitome of quality. He has failed miserably here.



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Summary: This Book provides comic relief at family dinners.
Review: Half the book is Donald Trump bragging about himself. While he does give some practical advice, it is only helpful for people who are either very young, or totally clueless. This man is totally in love with himself. The pictures in the book are mainly of his trophy wife, buildings, etc. Don't waste your money on this book, check it out of the library. On the positive side, this book did provide fun conversation at the family dinner table for my 12 year old son, when I read passages from the book. Even my 12 year old thought that Trump was nothing more than a braggart.

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Summary: Trump Gets an "E" for Ego
Review: If you like hearing someone tell you how great they are, this is the book for you!

While you will ferret out a few pearls of wisdom in this book, you will have to trudge through Trump's endless self promotion. Trump will give you a play by play analysis of his Saturday Night Live appearance and he will trumpet to you in every chapter about how great his TV show "The Apprentice" has done. I was wondering when he was going to tell me how great his hair is.

Donald even makes his chapters a couple of sentences longer when necessary so that he can make another page. One gets the sense that he wrote each chapter in 10 minutes while sitting on his 24 karat gold toilet.

Much of the advice in the book is pretty simplistic and is something that you might find in a fortune cookie. The fortune cookie would make a better investment.

Does Donald really think that his marriage to Slovenian model, Melania Knauss will last? In all of the pictures of her she has an annoying sneer/scowl like she is constipated. Maybe she has read this book?

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Summary: Not a "How to" book, but overall a good book...
Review: The Donald takes you on a trip into his mind. He lays out things that HE THINKS you'd want to know. (from a billionaire's prospective) He doesn't lay out any plans on how he became a billionaire or how he thinks one should go about being a billionaire. (which is what I think each reader is looking for based on the title) This book won't go down as the next "must have" for your self-improvement/motivation book for your library. It will, much to its credit, take you through his mind. It will make you believe...what the heck, I could be a Millionaire if he could be a Billionaire.

I liked the book. My advice, don't buy it if your looking for the road map. Buy it, if you are looking for insight on what a billionaire thinks. (and I have to tell you, his thinking is not far off from most corporate executives or business owners. Billionaire or 100,000-aire)


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Summary: "Trump is full of himself again"
Review: The first section of this book got me thinking...Maybe Trump is really going to give his readers some useful advise. Nope, I was wrong. I do start wondering just how the other half lives as I read his books. This book did make me think--thence 2 stars. Don't waste your time or money on this fine piece of self-indulgence. I think Trumps next major accomplishment is naming a God after himself.

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Summary: think like a billionaire and avoid this book
Review: this book read like a power point presentation. some text, some pictures .. cartoon.. zzzzz.. most of the wisdom attempted to be communicated by this book, i had always assumed to be common sense.

this is a really horrible book.. use the 20 bucks on a steak dinner.. seriously.. there is nothing to see here.

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Summary: Copper-hued hair not included
Review: This McBook is worth a few chuckles while waiting for your $5.00 coffee in a Barnes and Noble, but it should stay in the bookstore.

Donald's ghostwriter is pretty busy these days tranferring the wisdom of The Donald to the printed page so that masses of clueless people can get a peek into his world. With his sagely advice on tipping, as well as scoping out Elite Vacations magazine for his next yachting trip, Trump offers invaluable advice on succeeding in your pathetic, meaningless life.

Of course, I assume he's writing a revised edition, since this one omits the chapter of 'thinking like a billionaire' that talks about writing a worthless, glorified supermarket checkout counter 'book', and collecting a few more dimes.

Otherwise, the book has a shiny cover, and the paper stock appeared to be pretty standard. Shame there's no pictures.

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Summary: there is a better way to spend money
Review: While no one can deny Trump's entrepreneurial abilities and real estate knowledge - he should be fired as a writer.
This book is worse than "Trump: how to get rich" - the latter one can at least pass for an autobiography while this one is just a number of words put together with little story line or anything resembling it.
Added tons of empty space - probably half the book is blank - and simple common sense statements: "Be frugal", "Value your family", "Chose vocation you love", "Learn from the best" (e.g. "buy my book") - the book is just another way to expand The LEGEND of Trump!
Thus, as always, the main idea could be summed up as "Look at me! I am so filthy rich - it's so nice to be rich! I am such a good business man - I am so tough! bla-bla-bla..."
Is it worth the price? I don't know - it's your choice.