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Donald J. Trump (Author, Narrator), Bill Zanker (Author), Alan Sklar (Narrator),

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He's got the biggest personality in business. His trademark line "You're fired" from The Apprentice is one of America's most recognizable catchphrases. He's survived the biggest real-estate bankruptcy in history and climbed his way back to the top.

He's Donald J. Trump, and he's going to reveal to listeners the secrets to succeeding like he has in Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life. His co-author is Bill Zanker, CEO of the Learning Annex, which he started with $5,000 in Bar Mitzvah money. It's now one of Inc. magazine's 500 Fastest Growing Companies for the second straight year, with over $100 million in sales.

Together, they think BIG! And now, listeners will learn how they too can kick ass and achieve the success they've always dreamed of in business - and in their personal lives as well.

This audiobook is filled with the authors' incredible personal stories from their rough-and-tumble rise to the top of their fields, plus the experiences of other top achievers, including Russell Simmons, Mark Burnett, and Vince McMahon. Readers will get the inside story on Trump's recent clash with Rosie O'Donnell, how not to crack under pressure, the secrets to staying focused, how Trump himself stumbled and recovered multiple times on his way to the top, and much more.

The book features the Trump IT test, which will drive listeners to see if they have what IT takes and in what areas they need to kick it up, plus a selection of the best Q & A's from Trump's incredibly popular Learning Annex Wealth Expos and true stories of success from students who are already practicing his "Think BIG" strategies.

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Donald J. Trump
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Alan Sklar
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2007
October 23
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Listening Length	8 hours and 12 minutes
Author	Donald J. Trump, Bill Zanker
Narrator	Donald J. Trump, Alan Sklar
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Audible.com Release Date	October 23, 2007
Publisher	HarperAudio
Program Type	Audiobook
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Language	English
ASIN	B000XSAXWY
Best Sellers Rank	#23,585 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #195 in Entrepreneurship (Audible Books & Originals) #253 in Personal Finance (Audible Books & Originals) #286 in Business Motivation & Self-Improvement (Audible Books & Originals)

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If you want to understand the real donald trump, not the false one projected by the media, then READ this book.

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2016

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I am a 23 year old millenial who's been following Donald J. Trump closely since he announced his candidancy for president of the United States in June 2015. I had known him prior to this as a celebrity who's fame was only accentuated by his wealth. However, watching him speak truly and honestly in favor of Americans who have been neglected for so long instantly made me a fan. It was a badly needed breath of integrity that he spoke with which I rarely hear from those I'm around.

This book does not dissapoint if you reasonate with any of my Trump fandom. It gives you insight into his character and what motivates him. From reading this book you will learn what it means to be successful and how to adopt the mindset necessary for victory. I realize that all those slanderous mishaps that he made during the election were actually well explained within this book. To Donald Trump, it was important that he put those who would screw him over back in line. He compares these people to bullies from school who would only stop bullying if you hit them back just as hard or even harder. Nowadays, people cave into pressure way too easily. It's likely due to the convenience of our modern luxuries that have made people soft and weak hearted. I have seen this in both my school and work. People will fold under duress. We simply don't have the willpower and energy to stand up for ourselves anymore.

Reading this book has given me a lesson in some of this old-school toughness that Donald Trump embodies. I saw how much verbal abuse he took during the election. He was very strong in the way he handled it. He didn't just give up and pretend that people weren't mocking him. He fought back as he has done all his life. Maybe some people don't understand why it's important to do this but I do. I have personally seen people easily take advantage of others because of how unwilling anyone was to stand up to them. Sometimes all it really takes is to sock them in the mouth with a verbal punch. Yes, it can be crude and ugly as some of Donald Trump's vocabulary has been but it has worked well for him in his life.

Instead of fighting for ourselves we now have a tendancy to run crying to the nearest authority figure and ask them to stop the bullying. Yes, it'll keep the person who was messing with you off your back but he will still have no respect for you. If other people find out you had to cry to someone for protection then they will lose respect for you. What has happened to our dignity people? It seems like we don't have much self-respect anymore. Trump says something along the lines of "life is a struggle for survival". He admits that it's not the most pleasant thing to be hearing but it's true. You have to be willing to fight in this world. You have to fight to protect others but most importantly you have to fight in order to stand up for yourself because nobody else will.

To me, this is what this book was really about. I learned what it meant to have a winner's mentality. What it means to respect yourself and your own wellbeing. There is an overabundance of trying to respectful and courteous towards others. Growing up I have noticed this. People are unable to settle their differences and instead hide behind a veil of politeness and mask our true feelings from one another.
I think this book probably desrves 4 stars because the secondary author includes his own opinions following Trump's with an equal amount of pages. Some of it added to the point but honestly I could care less about it becaue I wanted to read about Trump and this other person was not all that compelling to me in comparison. I read some of his parts but skipped most of them. Most of it was just repeating what Trump had said anyways.

It's impossible to tell for sure how genuine Trump was with his writing in this book but my gut instinct tells me that he was sincerely writing to help out people and make the world a better place as cliche as that sounds.
If you are someone who's been looking up to Trump which I'm pretty sure many in the country are following his historical presidential run and with many to be added in the days to follow with his equally historical presidency then read this book. The man is my idol in many ways and I would swallow up any piece of writing that would let me get to know him better. This book gave me a pretty good impression of Trump. Unfortunately, with the bias media and the establishment out to get Trump it's hard to find decent sources of character on him but I felt like this got the job done.

Trump also includes his approach to women and what he thinks of their beauty. This was also a golden nugget that I appreciated given his alpha-male status and his success with the ladies.
If you were wondering what his Learning Annex speech was like where he was paid millions (I forget the exact number) then there's an excerpt of the Q and A at the end of the back. A quick search on youtube only showed bits of his Learning Annex speech so this was appreciated as well.

Overall, I would give this a 5 even though I mentioned before it should probably get a 4 because of my respect and love for the man, Donald J. Trump. But please don't let that fact take any credability from this review. After all, he won a presidential election against all odds and he in all likelihood will have one of, if not the, best presidency of all time.

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GL - yes, I am a real person

It is all about You.

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2023

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You may like him or not. Though of you are serious about your life, it is a must read. Good Luck.

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Reinold F.

The truth I had loved to have read at high school.

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2022

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Not late though, you are never late to read this book. I have had many customers, I have known some very successful customers, and they share some qualities with Donald Trump: they never stop working, they take falls and hardships as intervals, they don't let themselves to demoralize by attacks of rivals with interests in watching them fall, they get wives or husbands that push them upwards, they demand dreams, some are even called crazy but their craziness materializes into towers that dominate their cities.

I'd wish to have read this book at high school, before choosing a career. I am not sure if I had the maturity to take advantage of Trump's advice, but surely I would have noticed earlier the patterns and attitude that makes some to grow. Since reading this book I am dressing better, I am eating better, I communicate with my customers better and they appreciate my services with more respect, I am working more and better too, because I am seeing my work less like work and more like a dream or a passion. Next to Trump's words there is the commentary by Bill Zanker. Before this book I did not know about him but he gets to comment from experience and in an admirable scale. You need to buy this book, and you need to put it into practice.

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KLK

Not a waste of $10

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2016

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I didn't know who Donald Trump was other than assuming he was an egomaniac millionaire. And then I saw a short presidential candidacy interview of him and wanted to know more about his beliefs- because he sounded right on. This book was written in 2008 and I thought that would give me an accurate idea of where his values are. But, I thought I'd be throwing away my $10 for the book because I'm more of a mouse thinker. Am about zen and creativity, survival-ism and am simply not a business person at all. A bullet dodger.
I was pleasantly surprised to recognize a lot of truths in this book. I highlighted many passages. I was shocked that Mr. Trump came right out and basically said get revenge because you'll get respect from it in the long run. Don't be run over. I mean, there is a chapter about not letting people bully you or talk s***. This was straight up not how this Catholic girl was raised. But, it is excellent- living in this world; living in this age advise. The man is not passive. He's not afraid of being politically correct or being condemned or judged. He's about bring out the big guns when you need to. He's super smart and cunning and has the balls to speak openly about his successes and failures. He was a self help junkie- positive thinker. I get the impression that he's very aware of the big spiritual picture and is in no way a user, but a ultimately a giver. The man is a fighter and that's exactly who we need to lead our crumbling, weak, passive majority back to strength and our country -as he states- to greatness. He has my vote.
This book was not a waste of $10. I may not be a bigger thinker, but I'm more resolved to speak up and take action when others take advantage of me. To not roll over. To take a stand and call the meeting to order. To never give up. And as one of the personalities in the book discloses, "the harder I work, the luckier I get."

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Wer ist Donald John Trump?

Reviewed in Germany on February 17, 2017

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Dies ist nun schon mein zweites Trump-Buch nach "The Art of the Deal". Ich denke, jetzt ein besseres Verständnis davon zu haben, wie der neue amerikanische Präsident tickt - warum er von niemandem so richtig liebgehabt wird und warum er als Geschäftsmann so erfolgreich war - und es in der Politik vermutlich auch sein wird.

Die Medien haben sich auf ihn eingeschossen - "VIEL FEIND, VIEL EHR". Ich würde mir wünschen, unsere bekannten Allerweltsjournalisten hätten sich auch einmal die Mühe gemacht, erst einmal zu lesen statt immer nur abzuschreiben und nachzuplappern, was gerade angesagt scheint. Es ist doch so billig, auf einen fahrenden Zug aufzuspringen und seinen politisch "korrekten" primitiven Antiamerikanismus nach Herzenslust auszuleben. Wenn ich mir die Talk-Shows so ansehe, sind es dankenswerterweise immer die Gäste, welche die Diskussion wieder einfangen und die Moderatorinnen zur Sachlichkeit zurück führen. Das hätte ich nicht gedacht. Das große TRUMP-BASHING ist vorerst abgesagt, auch wenn die Medien ihre alten BUSH-BASHER offenbar wieder aus der Plünnenkiste herausgekramt haben. Man kann die Nummer auch nicht endlos fortsetzen.

Endlich: zu diesem Buch.

Das ist ein Motivations-Buch nach dem Motto: Ich habe es geschafft und viele andere haben es auch geschafft und Du kannst es auch schaffen, wenn Du die Sache nur ernsthaft genug betreibst. Mit dieser Masche ziehen die Vortragsreisenden durch die Kongresszentren und vermarkten die Bekanntheit ihres Namens. Und die Leute wollen so etwas hören und zahlen dafür hohe Eintrittsgelder. Am Ende sind alle happy - und schaffen es trotzdem nicht nach oben.

TRUMP hat es nicht nötig, auf die Vortragshonorare zu schielen - er versteht das Ganze mehr als "giving back". Sein Co-Autor ist aber mit genau dieser Nummer reich geworden. Das ist spannend zu lesen - vermutlich aber nicht so einfach wiederholbar. Ich würde sehr gerne einmal "THE APPRENTICE" im Fernsehen anschauen um mir ein eigenes Bild zu machen von der TRUMP-Show. Gerne in Englisch. Aber vielleicht kommt das ja noch ...

Fazit:

Sie werden NICHT reich, NICHT erfolgreich und NICHT zum Frauenschwarm, wenn sie dieses Buch gelesen haben. Sie können aber jetzt NOCH BESSER einschätzen, woran es bei Ihnen liegt und was SIE von Präsident TRUMP unterscheidet. Sehen Sie dieses "Werk" also nicht als Ratgeber, sondern ziehen Sie Ihre eigenen Rückschlüsse auf den Autor - und warum sie ihn nicht mögen, auch wenn er erfolgreich ist ... oder gerade deswegen. DANKE.

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Chez

Brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 12, 2014

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I love this book. It was the first of Donald Trump's books I had ever read. I love his kick ass attitude and I think anyone who criticizes him for it is simply jealous! Business is a dog eat dog world and if people believe it is all fluffy bunny rabbits and butterflies they will get eaten alive. What he's really teaching in this book is believing in yourself, have confidence and self respect. This can also be applied to every single area of your life. Who really wants to be walked all over by other people? And hey, the guy isn't at the top of the real-estate and business world for no reason!

Trump explains in this book how he built himself up as a young man, almost lost it all and then built it all up again. What better person to learn from than someone who has made it twice and through the toughest climates? I admire the way he never shy's away from owning up to his mistakes as this shows the strength of the lessons he has learnt.

This book includes words from another self made business entrepreneur Bill Zanker at the end of each chapter. I find his story to be amazing and I have a massive respect for his think big attitude. However, the contrast in style between the way that Donald Trump's stories were written meant that sometimes, whilst I was reading the parts from Zanker, I was still thinking about what Trump has said prior to it. It is worth rereading Zanker's parts alone if this happens to you too as his story is hugley inspirational.

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Simon E.

think bigly!

Reviewed in Germany on April 1, 2023

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Gutes Motivationsbuch. Einfach und schnell zu lesen, da Trump einfach unverkennbar er selbst ist und in einfachen Worten auf den Punkt kommt.

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Fernando M.

Donald Trump es Donald Trump

Reviewed in Mexico on December 21, 2022

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El libro está muy bien salvo por un par de capítulos en los que DT hace a un lado la ética más fundamental. Otros capítulos son de tan excelente contenido que me da la impresión que alguien se los escribió pero el no fue.

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Brett_Bloom

Magnificent self-improvement book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2013

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Thanks to 'The Apprentice USA', Donald Trump has re-emerged as a major figure within 21st century pop culture. It is easy to mock him. But reading this series of self-improvement books really does gives us wonderful insights in to what separates the mind of a multi-billionaire from the rest of the 7 billion people on this planet.

As the title says, it is all about coming up with the big ideas and dreams. And then, doing all you can to realise them. Life really is brief. So, why think along small steps? This is the thinking behind Donald Trump.

If you were into the works of people like Anthony Robbins and Paul McKenna, you would love this book. Re-reading some of its chapters on a weekly basis really do have an energising effect on one's mind. With other books within this genre, one has to question whether its author or authors had really achieved real success. I'm interested in getting advice about success from men and women who had really achieved extraordinary things. And in this case, Donald Trump is part of the aristocracy of great entrepreneurs. If you want to learn about how to make the best of your life and talents, this is one of those books you must read.

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