Donald Trump - Think like a Champion

This book is about the mindset of a champion in business and in life.

1. Believe in the beauty of your dream. Have the determination to realize your dream.
2. Be true to yourself and stick to your own convictions. Produce work from your heart.
3. Innovate by assembling different things together
4. Teamwork is important. Keep the team spirit alive in personal and professional lives.
5. Have gratitude and realize that we all have a lot to be thankful for.
6. Keep learning. Train your ability to think.
7. Be able to think on your feet and be self-reliant
8. Strive for wholeness and keep a sense of wonder for your projects i.e. perfection
9. Life is an adventure. Give your higher self a chance to achieve something great. Find out what is the unique thing your higher self can offer and work at it with passion.
10. Read the Art of War. Gain wisdom.
11. Have an expansive mind. Know that there is a lot to learn.
12. Think like a champion. Go the extra mile. Aim to be the best. Aim for the highest you can achieve. Make an effort to exert yourself every day and really focus all your thoughts upon the work at hand.
13. Make your work an art form and make it the best
14. Build connected thoughts. Learn classics in literature or history or something outside of your range of interests.
15. Confront your fears. Replace fear with a problem-solving attitude, faith in yourself and hard work.
16. Have imagination and vision and the ability to execute
17. Business success is a combination of aptitude, work and luck
18. Communicate concisely and succinctly
19. Have the right mindset. Includes responsibility and focus. Look at yourself first when things go wrong. Emphasize solutions not problems. Be a team player. Find remedy instead of finding fault.
20. Keep your momentum going
21. Learn from setbacks and mistakes
22. Tell people about your successes. Have an ego and acknowledge it. It is healthy. No ego would lead to little life force. Too much ego would be dictatorial. Have a moderate amount of ego to keep your momentum moving forward and keep yourself vibrant and productive. Be your own best friend and be comfortable with your own approval. Be steadfast in self-respect. Say great things about yourself until you have people to say good things about you.
23. Develop your gut instincts / prescience / foresight.
24. Things are cyclical. Be resilient, patient, creative and positive. he sea gets sick but never dies.
25. Understand finance and the financial sector
26. Know that there may be delays and detours along the way. Destiny and the unanticipated has a part to play in your life.
27. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Give your inner self a chance. If you had nothing to do at all, what would you do? What would you do next? And next?
28. Do what you are suited for. If you are doing the wrong thing, stop and move on!
29. Have the strength of character to withstand discouragements as well as disasters so you don't give up. Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
30. Get the best people you can. People who are trustworthy and competent. Know about people.
31. Dare to deal with problems and challenges
32.  Be true to yourself
33. Develop a tempo
34. Be enthusiastic
35. Take your work seriously, take yourself less seriously. Take some chances and go for a good time
36. be tough, be smart, be personable, but don't take things personally
37. Think like a genius with curiosity and think in patterns/opposites
38. Be groundbreaking, be original , be different
39. Think positively, stay persistent, don't settle for anything less than you envisioned
40. Find the most productive way you work. Build the habits and patterns for achievement and stick to it.
41. Discover and live your purpose
42. Ask yourself: What is your creative capital? What do you have to offer? What have you acquired in your experience and in your studies that makes you valuable? Are you aware of your own potential? Will you be equipped to make a difference when the time comes for you to step forward? Set your own standards, acknowledge your own value and remain positive from inside out.
43. Trust your intuition.
44. Know your audience. Prepare yourself every day to impress your audience
45. Stay calm during turbulence. There is wipeout but know that you can survive.
46. Build a reputation on intelligence, responsibility and results. Professionalism, loyalty, high standards.
47. Diligence is the mother of good luck - Benjamin Franklin
48. How to get rich? First, find something you absolutely love to do. Or continue finding it. In the meantime, learn everything you can about as many subjects and businesses as possible. Be able to take risks - reduce the risk with ample preparation and organization. Be efficient. Set time limit and be disciplined so as to not waste time. PASSION + EFFICIENCY = SUCCESS.
49. Make your working environment pleasant and effective. Be a magnet for the right people
50. IMPORTANT TRAITS: Integrity and negotiation and passion and persistence (tenacious/ never give up), integrity of purpose, attention to global events, accept responsibility, know that you can be topped and that you can be topped over.