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Trump: The Art of the Deal by [Trump, Donald J., Schwartz, Tony]
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by Donald J. Trump (Author), Tony Schwartz (Author)
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Length: 402 pages Word Wise: Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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  • File Size: 5019 KB
  • Print Length: 402 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (December 18, 2009)
  • Publication Date: December 23, 2009
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B000SEGE6M
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4.0 out of 5 starsEmpire-Building 101 (perfect for eager Apprentices)
By Christopher Hefele on March 9, 2004
Format: Mass Market Paperback
"Trump, who believes that excess can be a virtue, is as American as Manhattan's skyline," wrote George Will in the 1980's. Regardless of whether you think Donald Trump as a symbol of American success, or you think he's an annoying, chest-pounding egomaniac with bad hair, this book will show you what it took for him to build up his empire. The book shows Trump doing what he does best -- boldly making big deals -- during the "greed is good" decade of the 1980's. I found it interesting to see how much of his current empire he had built up before his 40th birthday, and to understand how he pulled off various deals.
The majority of the book is a swashbuckling, detailed history of his biggest projects. He talks about all the details, from negotiating with landholders, arguing about zoning with city officials, lining up contractors, interviewing architects, dealing with partners in various projects, negotiating with banks to line up financing, and the like.
Trump also devotes a couple chapters to his background. He was the son of a successful developer of rent-controlled & low-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn, NY. He was a mischievous, aggressive kid (he once punched a teacher), and was sent military school during his high-school years. He started college at Fordham in the Bronx, NY, to be close to home, but then then transferred to the Wharton Business School (at the University of Pennsylvania) because he liked its entrepreneurial emphasis. Shortly after college, he worked with his father to buy a troubled apartment complex in Cincinnati, which he fixed it up and sold for a multi-million dollar profit.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Art of the Deal -- Book Summary
By Justin Belkin on August 6, 2004
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Donald Trump has become arguably the world's best-known real-estate icon. He has undoubtedly worked hard for the honor. Trump routinely wakes up at 6AM, at which time he reads the morning papers before arriving to work by 9AM. He'll make anywhere from 50 to 100 phone calls daily, and will hold a dozen or so impromptu 15-minute meetings throughout the day. But Trump's work ethic is only part of the reason why he has come to define the quintessential real estate mogul.

Donald Trump provides for our benefit his eleven Trump Cards of success. They include thinking big, protecting the downside, maximizing options, knowing your market, using leverage, enhancing your location, getting the word out through a public relations/marketing campaign, fighting back, delivering the goods, controlling costs, and having fun. Yet even these Trump Cards fail to fully illuminate what it is that makes Trump so successful.

A great deal of Trump's success can be traced back to his father who built and sold homes throughout New York City, most prominently in Jamaica Estates. Donald would learn on the job from a young age about managing costs and putting together a working symphony of various real estate professionals. After transferring from Fordham University to the University of Pennsylvania to complete his undergraduate degree in business administration, Donald and his father bought Swifton Village in 1968, a 1200-unit FHA apartment complex in Cincinnati, Ohio. While the scope of a 1200-unit apartment complex may seem unfathomable to many, for Donald it was just the beginning. These formative years convinced Trump to look beyond NYC and take the next progressive step, which for him was to develop commercial real estate in Manhattan and later casinos in Atlantic City.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsA book about his deals
By Jeffrey Leeper on June 7, 2002
Format: Hardcover
This book is not a how-to book for deal making or negotiation. This book is more autobiographical. Each chapter covers a different deal, which were mostly in the 1980s. To learn from this will require some reading between the lines and some extrapolation.
With the exception of the first couple chapters, which talk about his early years, each chapter goes into some detail about a different deal, like the USFL and Trump Plaza. Trump talks about some negotiations, licensing, and construction. Reading about the steps behind each deal has some benefit if you are patient and read carefully.
Unfortunately, you need to understand the time, New York/New Jersey, and Trump to get this information. Since the information is from the 80s, it is a bit dated. Also, if you are not familiar with New York or New Jersey, many of his references (which are oftentimes just the streets involved) will mean nothing to you. Trump also does a lot of name-dropping. If you are not from the area, then most of the names will mean nothing (with the exception of some of the USFL players he mentions).
I would rate this book higher if it wasn't so dated. If you are familiar with the area and time covered in the book, then this can be helpful.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe life of Donald Trump through his deals
By Walter E. Kurtz on January 20, 2013
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Before picking up this book, I knew next to nothing about Donald Trump. I've never been interested in celebrity gossip. All I knew about Trump was that he is a billionaire who had made his fortune in real estate and that he is something of a celebrity. I knew that he has his share of fans and critics, but I was neither of them. In other words, I had no preconceived notions about that man.

After reading this book, I formed a positive image of him, but I also acknowledge that I should read something written by his critics to form a balanced opinion. However, what I think about Donald Trump as a person is not all that important because Art of the Deal is not about Donald Trump per se. Those who are looking for Trump's biography or who hope that he will reveal in this book some juicy details about his private life will be disappointed. The Art of the Deal starts with one short chapter about his life, and then it goes on to talk about his various business endeavors. Nor does the book say much about his private life. Not that there is much to talk about. From what I read, he is a workaholic and consummate professional who does not have much in terms of private life.

Be also advised that the Art of the Deal came out in 1987. If you want information about what was happening with Donald Trump in the past 26 years, look elsewhere.

So just what exactly is this book about? It's about his business projects, as well as his business and life philosophy. Each chapter tells the story of one of his more grandiose projects.

I have little interest in business and none whatsoever in real estate, but, nevertheless, I did find the book to be very interesting.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsIt is a great book to read

It is a great book to read. This book doesn't tell you how to make a deal. But, what it does do is he kind of shows you the lessons that he has learned from making deals. Read more

Published 12 minutes ago by Will
1.0 out of 5 starsI would never buy this to read

It's a little expensive for my cat box but I couldn't afford gold litter and they sure love sh*tting on it :)

Published 1 hour ago by Kindle Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsA good book but nothing to do with Donald Trump

No line or paragraph of this vigorously written book was composed or dictated by Donald Trump. Schwarz drew the inferences by listening in to Trump on the phone conducting his... Read more

Published 4 hours ago by Rachel Karsen
1.0 out of 5 starsThey also tend to be the uneducated and poor, which makes taking money...

New Yorkers do not believe Trump is a successful businessman. New Yorkers are very aware that he did not make his fortune, his dad did. Read more

Published 4 hours ago by C. Rigdon
1.0 out of 5 starsGive no one else a way out: Saul Alinksy at his best

Well written but people have come forward saying that he did not write it....why would you get a star.

Published 8 hours ago by Zahra
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

A good read.

Published 20 hours ago by mamafiz
5.0 out of 5 starsPresident trump

Insight into his personality and temperament. Written almost 30 yrs ago. A must read. The art of the deal. :)

Published 1 day ago by jan groeneveld
5.0 out of 5 starsthis book is like a case study of some of his biggest deals ...

Trump gives some direct pointers on how to approach any deal. Mostly, this book is like a case study of some of his biggest deals and how he handles them. Read more

Published 1 day ago by Mark D Griswold
1.0 out of 5 starsPerhaps the most insipid piece of self-aggrandizing trash I have ever...

The mind of a true narcissist is revealed in this rambling, self-contradictory compilation of "deals" by which Trump makes claim to being all that he says he is. Brilliant? Read more

Published 1 day ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsMAGA!

Before I voted I read this book and Crippled America, the choice was clear.

Published 2 days ago by Oscar

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