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Introduction to 'The Art of The Deal' · Real Donald Trump Wisdom

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  This is how the art of the deal starts.
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  Most people are surprised by the way I work.
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  I play it very loose.
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  I don't carry a briefcase.
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  I try not to schedule too many meetings.
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  I leave my door open.
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  You can't be imaginative or entrepreneurial if you got too much structure.
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  I prefer to come to work each day and just see what develops.
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  There is rarely a day with fewer than 50 calls and often it runs to over a hundred.
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  In between I have at least a dozen meetings.
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  The majority occur on the spur of the moment and few of them last longer than 15 minutes.
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  I rarely stop for lunch.
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  I leave my office by 6.30.
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  But I frequently make calls from home until midnight and all weekend long.
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  It never stops and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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  I try to learn from the past but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the
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  present.
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  That's where the fun is.
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  And if it can't be fun, what's the point?
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  Okay so here we see there's a few lessons we can walk away with just with this introduction.
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  First is that it's important to keep your schedule flexible.
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  You don't want to have too much things that are blocked in it ahead of time because the
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  world is dynamic and you want to be open to serendipitous encounters.
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  We also see that he keeps his meetings short and to the point.
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  That way he's able to get a lot of things done without wasting time.
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  He mentions that he takes in and gets a lot of calls meaning make time for a lot of input
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  and a lot of output.
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  And the way he does this is to go very short and sweet and to the point and by not having
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  too rigid of a structure.
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  And finally although he looks at the past to improve, he is focused on the present in
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  order to plan for the future.
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  And if you see all the new trends and opportunities, their hints are in the present more than they
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  are in the past.
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  In a way what he's saying here is that the best way to plan and prepare for the future
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  is to focus on the present more than on the past.
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  And concretely saying what can you do right now to make things better for example in a
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  given situation.
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  He refers to that in a book he wrote later on called Never Give Up.
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  So to summarize, keep your schedule flexible, keep your meetings short and to the point,
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  try for a high level of input and output and plan for the future by focusing on the present.