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Trump: The Way to the Top - The Best Business Advice I Ever Received Hardcover – 18 May 2004

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One of the world's most successful tycoons compiles a selection of witty and practical advice, vignettes, principles, insights, and guidelines on business from a number of successful businesspeople and executives with such diverse firms as Staples, Lillian Vernon, Boeing, and Time Warner. 100,000 first printing.

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253 pages
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Random House USA Inc
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18 May 2004
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13.34 x 1.91 x 18.54 cm
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1400050162
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978-1400050161
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The host of the hit reality show The Apprentice presents an invaluable collection of grounded, hard-hitting advice on business success, from people who have made it to the boss s chair at some of America s most thriving companies.

How can you find the way to the top?

Ask people who are already there.

Because you can t know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide-ranging your business experience, there s simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business flourish. You need to learn from those who have blazed a trail before you.

Donald Trump has asked many of the brightest, most successful businesspeople he knows and some he doesn't know to answer this question: What's the best business advice you ever received? The result is a compelling resource of wisdom and wit that reveals how some of the most accomplished people conduct their personal and business affairs, giving an inside look into the secrets of corporate success. But the advice doesn t only come from the upper echelons of the Fortune 500. Thoughts poured in from executives at thriving companies large and small, ranging from well-known icons such as Staples, American Airlines, Lillian Vernon, and Boeing to family-run operations like Orleans Homebuilders and Carlson Companies.

The Way to the Top brings together the core ideas that have guided more than 150 of today s top businesspeople, offering a range of inspiring and practical advice on making good decisions, conducting yourself appropriately, developing your career, communicating with others, leading a team effectively, and much more. Some of the entries are simple entreaties, some portray intriguing vignettes, and others outline lists of guiding principles; all are illuminating, instructive, and insightful.

A telling to-do list for the aspiring professional, The Way to the Top belongs on every business bookshelf.

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Donald J. Trump is known worldwide for his business acumen. He is the very definition of the American success story, continually setting the standards of excellence while expanding his interests in real estate, gaming, sports, and entertainment.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House USA Inc (18 May 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 253 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1400050162
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1400050161
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.34 x 1.91 x 18.54 cm

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Donald J. Trump is the very definition of the American success story, continually setting the standards of excellence while expanding his interests in real estate, sports, and entertainment. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance. An accomplished author, Mr. Trump has authored over fifteen bestsellers and his first book, The Art of the Deal, is considered a business classic and one of the most successful business books of all time. Mr. Trump has over eight million followers on social media and is a frequent guest across a variety of media platforms. Photo by by Michael Vadon [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Justin Donne

Masterful compilation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 August 2017

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People love to hate on Trump, but his books are fantastic. This one is amazing and I'll keep it forever. Quotes from business leaders across many sectors, that Trump has compiled together.

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Mr William A C Paine

Arrived on time and as described. Good product.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 September 2017

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Arrived on time and as described. Good product.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 March 2013

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This is a great item and I would most certainly recommend it to others.
It is worth every penny paid for it.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 February 2017

great selleter

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 June 2008

I had just read Trump's 'The Art of the Deal' which was an excellent book. So in searching for my next Trump book, I came across 'The Way to the Top- The best business advice I ever received'. It seemed like a good next step. Supposedly it would describe Trump's experiences and the best business advice he ever received. Or so I thought. The book is a collection of quotes (sometimes expanded quotes) and that's it.

For example, on page 198 there is the name of a person and his title, followed by:
Ask your employees, "What do you think of our business?"

Then a tag that says: "Talk to the workers in the trenches."

That's all you get for page 198, and that's the structure of the book. Many of the quotes are good, so if you are looking for a book of quotes then maybe this is for you.

If only there was an Amazon review of this book available before I bought it. I suppose someone has to be the first to post a review.

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Thomas Keogh

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 April 2015

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Arrived in great condition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2019

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Astounding range of good advice much of which I found out the hard way in the late 20th century. I would add one of my own, your number one objective is not maximising profits, increasing the share price etc. It is "survival". If you survive you can always make up the money this year that you lost last year. Footnote: Prioritise your objectives.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 September 2017

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TheWildBoy

People get fooled by many things and ....

Reviewed in the United States on 5 August 2021

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People get fooled by many things and simplicity of idea(s) is one of them, based on my decades of experience.

I wasn't going to write this comprehensive review if it wasn't for some negative reviews and what another reviewer "Inma" mentioned.

Let me tell you a little bit about myself:

As a refugee and an immigrant I grew up poor and in a ghetto. I have seen it all and experienced most of it. I have worked for pennies. I kid you not, I remember doing online related grunt work for 0.10cents that was back in 2002-03.

Today I own a company that is worth millions of dollars, and I also have a fund that's worth millions and I achieved all of it doing very simple basic things that I have found 99.99% of population miss and yet they blame others.

I spend a lot of time listening to what people say and what they do.

In the last 16 years trying to build my company I have learned one thing, if you are poor or stuck in life, then you have one major flaw and that is: YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING.

I have noticed this with my friends, family and people who I meet or talk to when they ask me about business and life and how to be successful. Every time they talk to me and I tell them the very basics they say they know it. And I always tell them it's one thing to know and another thing to do it day in and day out.

Growing up in Canada as an immigrant, I didn't have an edge but after reading a book or two that helped me think better I realized that I have to do just do few simple things day in and day out.

At my first job here's what I did to get a promotion:

1. Be early at work
2. Leave last
3. No holidays, I never took a holiday or sick leave.
4. Say, hello, how are you, thank you, please, you are welcome
5. Show respect to everyone no matter what their position
6. Disciplined at work, putting 100x more than others in everything I did. I tried to get good at what I was doing every day a little bit either by reading a book or listening to an audio or just taking part in discussions on online forums (when forums where a place to discuss things)

I did this day in and day out for give or take about almost 1.5yrs - 2yrs in the job, when one day I got an email from the boss that he would like to see me.

I had no idea why would he want to see me because other than hi/hello/how are you, I didn't talk much with the boss. I always reported to my seniors.

When I arrived he told me to have a seat and then he said, "I have been observing you since the very first day since we hired you, that you are always the first at the office (my boss who later became my first mentor was always the first person that came to office in the morning), the last to leave, you have not taken any days-off or holidays."

At that moment I don't know what hit me I said to my boss, "What made you mention this to me after all this time?" He said, "I was keeping an eye to see if you are serious or you are just playing around. I wanted to make sure you are the real deal."

Without any further talk he pushed a paper for me to sign, I asked him what was that he said agreement for the new position and promotion.

He assigned me the leader for his new project with increase in pay, I went from making $2k a month to $10000 a month.

His company went on to make millions and millions of dollars. Last I checked they are worth few billion dollars and they are one of the leading websites on the internet.

Now you could say I got lucky, but it happened to me again and again from that job to next and to my business and eventually my own fund.

Don't be fooled by simple ideas in this book as some people have mentioned.

It's not the ideas it's about execution and doing it day in and day out.

Great book and I thank Mr. Trump for compiling this information because even after 16 years of my experience I still learned something new.

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Daniel OC

Breve y sencillo el libro, pero tiene cosas útiles.

Reviewed in Mexico on 26 May 2020

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Un poco sencillo el libro, pero ya que lo empiezas a leer, encuentras consejos que vale la pena seguir para aplicarlos en tu vida cotidiana y en el mundo de los negocios. Espero que digitalicen el "They art of they comeback" y Surviving at the top", ya que son reliquias que ya no se consiguen fácilmente.

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Rocky Mountain Entrepreneur

Short Bits of Advice

Reviewed in Canada on 15 June 2013

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I've used a bunch of the advice from this book with a high degree of success. I own several Trump books (see my other reviews--was disappointed with one). This one provides a lot of advice from a variety of sources and is worth re-reading several times so I would recommend a purchase rather than getting it from the library.

There are so many lessons learned and great pieces of advice that couldn't really put down all the things I learned. One major advantage is that the advice is not strictly Trump speaking but people he respects so you get multiple viewpoints.

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Roger Grace

Trump won!

Reviewed in the United States on 13 August 2023

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This is one 1st class act book! See the pages with to reshape your opinions. Book rating +A+

Ryan Berckmans

... write one word in this book - except the stupid introduction you can safely skip over

Reviewed in the United States on 1 July 2016

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Donald Trump didn't write one word in this book - except the stupid introduction you can safely skip over.

This book is a collection of amazing business stories and advice. I love this book and have bought several copies over the years for friends.

A word of warning - the pithy little summaries on each story were clearly written by somebody else than the business leader who submitted the story. Get a sharpie and cover them them up. They are inaccurate and don't reflect the depth many of the stories possess.

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