Trump: The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received

Donald J. Trump

May 2004 · Sold by Crown Currency

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

read the print copy from the library. it's hard to take financial advice knowing that the writer ( probably ghost written) makes money from bankruptcy and stiffing vendors. all in not well written and rehash of online business advice columns

Great book, ignore the regarding from far left trolls, spouting the same rhetoric over and over againz let's go over the Critism and fake reviews One reviewer: "Make America White Again" America has been predominately white for over a hundred years? So in other words this is some dogwhistle for black supremacy and making racism commited by African warlords who blamed the selling of their own people on whites "Great Again" Okay? But that has nothing to do with this book but rather your political extremism onto the next "Trump made money from bankruptcy and it's a rehashing of business articles online" rhetoric, lies and strawmanning deluxe, he made money by purchasing failing businesses and turning them round, that's a record beeakingly low number of bankruptcies counting success for that kind.of investing please get education on business, go back to school, yes he did also state facts available online standing by them and putting them in one place, that's not a valid argument

You don't want to learn from multiple bankruptcies and surround yourself with bunch of milquetoast yes man.

About the author

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.