My company of billions and was much too heavily leveraged. I was in debt personally for

nine hundred million. One day I was walking down the street and I said to my then wife,

Marla, that beggar over there is worth nine hundred million dollars more than I am. She said, what do you mean? I said because I'm

900 million dollars in debt and at least he has money in his pocket. That is a quote from

Donald Trump's Think Big and Kick ass. A fun book and I reminded myself that I'd read it when the New York Times

broke all this news that Trump had lost billions of dollars and taken

billions of dollars of write-offs in the early 90s.

This book is a lot of fun for a number of reasons.

The primary reason is that it has a fast pace it has a good flow and it's about a

character who at the time the book's publication 2007 no one would have thought

would be president of the United States.

Think about it.

When you read this book and you read Trump's older books, you would not think to yourself

this person is writing to become president.

And what do I mean by that?

Well, you're a public persona and you want to run for office,

you're almost always going to take the safe route.

What if I tell this bad joke or what if I talk about my vices or what I talk about this how might this play down the road

What's the media gonna do with it?

And Trump you read it he talks about his love of beautiful women, he talks about his

dating strategies, and he would say this guy has no shot to be president, and to me that's the most

fascinating aspect of Trump and the rise of Trump.

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