[Vision Thing]

You’re welcome!

I think you’re the first on the web to compare The Art of the Deal to the Trump 2016 candidacy.

And it’s eye opening.

I was wondering why it hasn’t been done before. Maybe because Team Trump didn’t want anyone to give away its game plan, and they’ve been taking down any of those stories.

But then that would be futile. Based on what you wrote, it’s plain as day exactly what Team Trump is doing. Any enterprising and curious mind would eventually discover it.

I don’t think Trump has to worry about any of his competitors figuring out his game plan or using it against him if they study your post or anything else like it.

That’s because Trump has the advantage in using Art of the Deal tactics in 2016: no one else can use them as well as he does. He already has decades worth of experience using them. And he has already cornered the market on many of them in 2016, such as Think Big, Contain the Costs, and Having Fun.

So thanks again for sharing it with us, FR, and the Web.

I hope Trump’s people see it. I’m sure they already have. Some here have already mentioned or hinted they’ve shared it with their networks.

Also, congrats on your new market-analyst business!

[poconopundit]

Thanks again.

Hearing what you say about "giving away the game plan" makes me think: that's probably a Trump strategy too!

Imagine the brutally competitive New York real estate market of the late 80s, when out comes this book written by Trump, one of the most successful of all New York developers.  And in that book Trump reveals the details and principles behind his business.

How could a Trump competitor not buy his book!

But why did Trump give away his trade secrets like that?

The answer, I think, is that Trump planned to compete on a higher plane.  The Art of the Deal would create terrific name recognition and a halo of success that would attract new business like bees to honey.

And Deliver the Goods he did.  A book doesn't become one of the best-selling business books of all time unless the quality is there — and readers feel they got good value.

And then there's the Trump Card that is not mentioned in the book:

You Need to. . . Give to Get

Trump knew if The Art of the Deal took off, it would bring opportunity from places he could never imagine.

Perhaps the biggest opportunity of all came from a certain reader named Mark Burnett, the creator and producer of The Apprentice.  Here's what Burnett wrote in the foreword of another Trump book, The Midas Touch.

"Years ago, long before meeting Donald, I read his first book, The Art of the Deal.  At the time, I was selling T-shirts on the beach in Los Angeles. In between customers, I was constantly reading The Art of the Deal.

I especially appreciated that it was written for someone like me — someone who had never been to business school.

I was in total awe of this real estate mogul, Donald Trump, and never believed I would set eyes on the man himself, let alone meet him. 

I certainly never imagined that I would be in business with him."