Maybe because he has enough money and he wants to teach others to be successful. Until one of you become a billionaire, I dont want to hear crap.
The man is and always has been just a celebrity. He does one thing really well ... he knows how to market himself. As for most of his deals they are all financed on high debt junk bonds. He is and always has been one bad turn away from bankruptcy.
With the Don it's all about multiple streams of income. Don got a view of how some of the national and local RE investors were applying creative techniques he had little or no knowlegde of and were selling the information to newbie investors and making "MONEY".
Its good to see that we have so many wildly profitable traders here on ET that they can afford the time to worry about someone else's business.
wow, what an insightful comment. Trump is a public persona hence he is open season to critics and comments. I am sure your silence tells tales of your trading acumen.....
There seems to be enough envy and dearth of self worth without me adding to the misery by touting my own success, I will leave that to others who feel they have something to prove. My point was that perhaps some might find their time better spent worrying about their own business plan that is probably not working than in makiing idle comments on someone elses that is. Perhaps then they wouldn't be so envious and feel so unfulfilled. "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
I can get a tell on the age of you guys by your relative beliefs that money makes you happy. It doesn't. As a matter of fact, it sometimes makes people miserable. I know many people of substantial wealth who are compulsive worriers, afraid of tomorrow - just plain unhappy. They worked for a goal, reached it in monetary terms, and are still looking. It's a miserable way to live. Hitler accumulated a fortune. He was a billionaire several times over. How'd that turn out?
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070126/1a_cover26.art.htm Here's Trump trying to buy prestige. Thought it was interesting. He has everything, but can he run in this circle?