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Firstly, we begin with a book from Donald Trump - The Art of The Deal
THE ART OF THE DEAL - DONALD TRUMP
I owe special thanks to several people who made it possible for me to complete this book in the face of my other responsibilities. Ivana Trump, my wonderful wife, and my three children were understanding about the many weekends that I spent working on the book. Si Newhouse first came to me and convinced me to do a book despite my initial reluctance. Howard Kaminsky, Peter Osnos, and many others at Random House have been enthusiastic, energetic supporters of the book.
Tony Schwartz wishes to thank the many people who gave generously of their time, in particular, Robert Trump, Der Scutt, Nick Ribis, Blanche Sprague, Norman Levine, Harvey Freeman, Tony Gliedman, Al Glasgow, John Barry, and Dan Cooper. For typing, photocopying, copyediting, research, and fact checking, thanks to Ruth Mullen, Gail Olsen, Adina Weinstein, Deborah Immergut, and Nancy Palmer. Without Norma Foerderer, sweet Norma, running interference for me, I never could have gotten the time and access I needed. My agent, Kathy Robbins, is the best at what she does, but also much more: editor, cheerleader, confidante. Ed Kosner, the extraordinary editor of New York, has long been a source of ideas, inspiration and sage counsel. My children, Kate and Emily, are a joy, a challenge, and an inspiration. My wife, Deborah, is the most supportive person I’ve ever known, my first editor, my best friend, and—after ten years still the love of my life.
THE ART OF THE DEAL - DONALD TRUMP
I owe special thanks to several people who made it possible for me to complete this book in the face of my other responsibilities. Ivana Trump, my wonderful wife, and my three children were understanding about the many weekends that I spent working on the book. Si Newhouse first came to me and convinced me to do a book despite my initial reluctance. Howard Kaminsky, Peter Osnos, and many others at Random House have been enthusiastic, energetic supporters of the book.
Tony Schwartz wishes to thank the many people who gave generously of their time, in particular, Robert Trump, Der Scutt, Nick Ribis, Blanche Sprague, Norman Levine, Harvey Freeman, Tony Gliedman, Al Glasgow, John Barry, and Dan Cooper. For typing, photocopying, copyediting, research, and fact checking, thanks to Ruth Mullen, Gail Olsen, Adina Weinstein, Deborah Immergut, and Nancy Palmer. Without Norma Foerderer, sweet Norma, running interference for me, I never could have gotten the time and access I needed. My agent, Kathy Robbins, is the best at what she does, but also much more: editor, cheerleader, confidante. Ed Kosner, the extraordinary editor of New York, has long been a source of ideas, inspiration and sage counsel. My children, Kate and Emily, are a joy, a challenge, and an inspiration. My wife, Deborah, is the most supportive person I’ve ever known, my first editor, my best friend, and—after ten years still the love of my life.
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Thím nghe giọng anh nhiều ak?
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Life lessons from villains, crooks and gangsters
(A) A notorious Mexican drug baron’s audacious escape from prison in July doesn’t, at first, appear to have much to teach corporate boards. But some in the business world suggest otherwise. Beyond the morally reprehensible side of criminals' work, some business gurus say organised crime syndicates, computer hackers, pirates and others operating outside the law could teach legitimate corporations a thing or two about how to hustle and respond to rapid change.
(B) Far from encouraging illegality, these gurus argue that – in the same way big corporations sometimes emulate start-ups – business leaders could learn from the underworld about flexibility, innovation and the ability to pivot quickly. “There is a nimbleness to criminal organisations that legacy corporations [with large, complex layers of management] don’t have,” said Marc Goodman, head of the Future Crimes Institute and global cyber-crime advisor. While traditional businesses focus on rules they have to follow, criminals look to circumvent them. “For criminals, the sky is the limit and that creates the opportunity to think much, much bigger.”
(A) A notorious Mexican drug baron’s audacious escape from prison in July doesn’t, at first, appear to have much to teach corporate boards. But some in the business world suggest otherwise. Beyond the morally reprehensible side of criminals' work, some business gurus say organised crime syndicates, computer hackers, pirates and others operating outside the law could teach legitimate corporations a thing or two about how to hustle and respond to rapid change.
(B) Far from encouraging illegality, these gurus argue that – in the same way big corporations sometimes emulate start-ups – business leaders could learn from the underworld about flexibility, innovation and the ability to pivot quickly. “There is a nimbleness to criminal organisations that legacy corporations [with large, complex layers of management] don’t have,” said Marc Goodman, head of the Future Crimes Institute and global cyber-crime advisor. While traditional businesses focus on rules they have to follow, criminals look to circumvent them. “For criminals, the sky is the limit and that creates the opportunity to think much, much bigger.”
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The Elements of Style - William Strunk, Jr.
This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.
The book covers only a small portion of the field of English style, but the experience of its writer has been that once past the essentials, students profit most by individual instruction based on the problems of their own work, and that each instructor has his own body of theory, which he prefers to that offered by any textbook.
The writer’s colleagues in the Department of English in Cornell University have greatly helped him in the preparation of his manuscript. Mr. George McLane Wood has kindly consented to the inclusion under Rule 11 of some material from his Suggestions to Authors.
The book covers only a small portion of the field of English style, but the experience of its writer has been that once past the essentials, students profit most by individual instruction based on the problems of their own work, and that each instructor has his own body of theory, which he prefers to that offered by any textbook.
The writer’s colleagues in the Department of English in Cornell University have greatly helped him in the preparation of his manuscript. Mr. George McLane Wood has kindly consented to the inclusion under Rule 11 of some material from his Suggestions to Authors.
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(continue reading The Art Of The Deal) (02)
1. Dealing: A week in the life
I DON’T do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks.
Most people are surprised by the way I work. I play it very loose. I don’t carry a briefcase. I try not to schedule too many meetings. I leave my door open. You can’t be imaginative or entrepreneurial if you’ve got too much structure. I prefer to come to work each day and just see what develops.
There is no typical week in my life. I wake up most mornings very early, around six, and spend the first hour or so of each day reading the morning newspapers. I usually arrive at my office by nine, and I get on the phone. There’s rarely a day with fewer than fifty calls, and often it runs to over a hundred. In between, I have at least a dozen meetings. The majority occur on the spur of the moment, and few of them last longer than fifteen minutes. I rarely stop for lunch. I leave my office by six-thirty, but I frequently make calls from home until midnight, and all weekend long.
It never stops, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is. And if it can’t be fun, what’s the point?
Monday
9:00 A.M. My first call is to Alan (“Ace”) Greenberg, on the trading floor of Bear Sterns, a major Wall Street investment banking firm. Alan is the CEO of Bear Sterns, he’s been my investment banker for the past five years, and he’s the best there is. Two weeks ago, we began buying stock in Holiday Inns. It was selling in the 50s. As of this morning, Alan tells me, I own just over one million shares, or slightly more than 4 percent of the company. The stock closed Friday at $65 a share, mostly, Alan says, because word is out on the street that I’ve been a big buyer, and there’s speculation I am planning a run at the company.
The truth is I’m keeping my options open. I may ultimately go for control of Holiday, which I think is somewhat undervalued. At the current stock price, I could get control for less than $2 billion. Holiday’s three casino-hotels could be worth nearly that much—and the company owns another 300,000 hotel rooms besides.
A second option, if the stock price goes high enough, is to sell my stake and take a very nice profit. If I did that today, I’d already be up about $7 million. The third possibility is that Holiday may eventually offer to buy back my shares, at a premium, simply to get rid of me. If the premium is big enough, I’ll sell.
In any case, I enjoy seeing the lengths to which bad managements go to preserve what they call their independence—which really just means their jobs.
9:30 A.M. Abraham Hirschfeld calls me, looking for advice. Abe is a successful real estate developer but he wants to be a politician. Unfortunately for Abe, he’s a far better developer than politician.
This fall, Abe tried to run for lieutenant governor against Governor Cuomo’s hand-picked candidate, Stan Lundine. Cuomo led a court fight to get Hirschfeld off the ballot on technical grounds, and sure enough, halfway into the campaign, the court ruled Hirschfeld out. Abe knows I’m friendly with the governor, and he wants my advice now on whether he should endorse Cuomo or switch parties and endorse Cuomo’s opponent. I tell him it’s a no-contest question—stick with a winner and a good guy at that.
We set a meeting for Thursday.
1. Dealing: A week in the life
I DON’T do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks.
Most people are surprised by the way I work. I play it very loose. I don’t carry a briefcase. I try not to schedule too many meetings. I leave my door open. You can’t be imaginative or entrepreneurial if you’ve got too much structure. I prefer to come to work each day and just see what develops.
There is no typical week in my life. I wake up most mornings very early, around six, and spend the first hour or so of each day reading the morning newspapers. I usually arrive at my office by nine, and I get on the phone. There’s rarely a day with fewer than fifty calls, and often it runs to over a hundred. In between, I have at least a dozen meetings. The majority occur on the spur of the moment, and few of them last longer than fifteen minutes. I rarely stop for lunch. I leave my office by six-thirty, but I frequently make calls from home until midnight, and all weekend long.
It never stops, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is. And if it can’t be fun, what’s the point?
Monday
9:00 A.M. My first call is to Alan (“Ace”) Greenberg, on the trading floor of Bear Sterns, a major Wall Street investment banking firm. Alan is the CEO of Bear Sterns, he’s been my investment banker for the past five years, and he’s the best there is. Two weeks ago, we began buying stock in Holiday Inns. It was selling in the 50s. As of this morning, Alan tells me, I own just over one million shares, or slightly more than 4 percent of the company. The stock closed Friday at $65 a share, mostly, Alan says, because word is out on the street that I’ve been a big buyer, and there’s speculation I am planning a run at the company.
The truth is I’m keeping my options open. I may ultimately go for control of Holiday, which I think is somewhat undervalued. At the current stock price, I could get control for less than $2 billion. Holiday’s three casino-hotels could be worth nearly that much—and the company owns another 300,000 hotel rooms besides.
A second option, if the stock price goes high enough, is to sell my stake and take a very nice profit. If I did that today, I’d already be up about $7 million. The third possibility is that Holiday may eventually offer to buy back my shares, at a premium, simply to get rid of me. If the premium is big enough, I’ll sell.
In any case, I enjoy seeing the lengths to which bad managements go to preserve what they call their independence—which really just means their jobs.
9:30 A.M. Abraham Hirschfeld calls me, looking for advice. Abe is a successful real estate developer but he wants to be a politician. Unfortunately for Abe, he’s a far better developer than politician.
This fall, Abe tried to run for lieutenant governor against Governor Cuomo’s hand-picked candidate, Stan Lundine. Cuomo led a court fight to get Hirschfeld off the ballot on technical grounds, and sure enough, halfway into the campaign, the court ruled Hirschfeld out. Abe knows I’m friendly with the governor, and he wants my advice now on whether he should endorse Cuomo or switch parties and endorse Cuomo’s opponent. I tell him it’s a no-contest question—stick with a winner and a good guy at that.
We set a meeting for Thursday.
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Tôi nợ nhiều lời cảm ơn đặc biệt đến những người đã giúp tôi hoàn thành cuốn sách này khi mà tôi còn phải đối mặt với những trách nhiệm khác của mình trong cuộc sống. Ivana Trump, người vợ tuyệt vời của tôi, và ba đứa con đã thông cảm cho những ngày cuối tuần mà tôi dành để viết sách. Si Newhouse lần đầu tiên đến gặp và thuyết phục tôi làm một cuốn sách này mặc dù ban đầu tôi có chút miễn cưỡng. Howard Kaminsky, Peter Osnos, và nhiều người khác ở Random House đã là những người ủng hộ nhiệt tình và năng nổ của quyển sách.
Tony Schwartz muốn cảm ơn nhiều người đã hào phóng dành thời gian của họ, đặc biệt, Robert Trump, Der Scutt, Nick Ribis, Blanche Sprague, Norman Levine, Harvey Freeman, Tony Gliedman, Al Glasgow, John Barry và Dan Cooper. Cảm ơn Ruth Mullen, Gail Olsen, Adina Weinstein, Deborah Immergut, and Nancy Palmer, bởi các công việc như đánh máy, sao chép, tìm kiếm và kiểm chứng. Nếu không có Norma Foerderer, Norma - những người luôn giải quyết những vấn đề khó khăn (run interference = deal with problems) tôi gặp phải, thì tôi không bao giờ có được thời gian và quyền hạn mà tôi cần để làm nên cuốn sách. Người đại diện của tôi, Kathy Robbins - một người giỏi việc nhất, nhưng cô ấy còn nhiều hơn thế nữa: một biên tập viên, một hoạt náo viên, và là một bạn tâm giao. Ed Kosner - biên tập viên phi thường ở New York, luôn là một người có đẩy ý tưởng, là một nguồn cảm hứng và là một nhà cố vấn thông thái. Các con của tôi, Kate và Emily, là niềm vui, là thử thách và là một nguồn cảm hứng của tôi. Vợ tôi, Deborah, là người ủng hộ tôi nhất mà tôi từng biết, cũng là biên tập viên đầu tiên, và là người bạn thân nhất của tôi và — sau mười năm vẫn là tình yêu của đời tôi.
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