BookXcess Reviews Trump’s Business Books

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Think Big & Kick Ass – Donald Trump & Bill Zanker
Why We Want You to be Rich – Donald Trump & Robert T. Kiyosaki
Price: RM29.90 each

1. So, what are these two books about?
Think Big & Kick Ass teaches the reader to use Donald Trump’s think BIG formula to maximise professional and personal achievement. Bill Zanker is the founder of The Learning Annex, an adult education school and someone who has applied Trump’s formula in his life. Together, they relate their personal and professional experiences to impart to the reader on how to get momentum (and how to get it back), when to back up one’s opinions aggressively regardless of what critics and opponents say and many more quality advice from two individuals who have succeeded, failed and achieved success again and again.

Why We Want You to be Rich comes from two men with one message: to share their passion and knowledge of the importance of finance education. Robert T. Kiyosaki, who’s most famous for his bestseller Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Donald Trump believe in the adage of teaching a man to fish to feed him for a lifetime (rather than to give him a fish and feed him for a day). Together, Kiyosaki and Trump teaches you to solve money problems with financial education and ultimately, to be rich.

2. What’s special about them?
In Think Big & Kick Ass, you will learn the importance of contracts in business as well as personal life, read real-life stories from individuals who’ve applied the think BIG formula in their own lives, and basically how to break through your own personal limits to think BIG the Donald Trump way and achieve success in life.

In Why We Want You to be Rich Trump & Kiyosaki share in detail the reasons why they wrote this book, identify the kinds of investors, offer financial advice for individuals in various financial scenarios and teach you how to get started in your quest to be rich.

3. What are your thoughts on these books?
Think Big & Kick Ass is like listening to the big man Donald Trump himself talk to you about his working experience. His anecdotes are conversational but are packed with wisdom. It’s a motivating and entertaining read – you’ll finish the book and gain some good advice about achieving success not just in your career but in your personal life.

Why We Want You to be Rich has Trump & Kiyosaki taking their differing life experiences to share their views on the financial issues brought up in this book. Visually it is not too linear, with pictures, block quotes and diagrams interspersed throughout so it makes reading it not too monotonous. The font is large enough that you don’t have to squint to read it.

4. Would you recommend them to anyone?
Think Big & Kick Ass makes a great self-help read for a budding entrepreneur who needs motivation and inspiration to succeed in business.

Why We Want You to be Rich is recommended for the individual looking to grow his or her money with money, or someone who wants to learn more about finance education.

5. Random question: Share a Donald Trump trivia with us.
According to Wikipedia, Donald Trump’s salary is USD$37 million!!! Annually, we presume… but still! The amount’s absolutely mind-boggling. He’s also worth USD$2 billion… staggering! How many zeros are there in a billion??

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