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February 13, 2017
13 month old baby [1/3]
TiR waited for someone else
to pull together the data on a tendency we thought obvious. Hasn't happen
yet. So here are some data points we found. Make of them what you will.
in his own words:
Everything in life is luck.
from Portable
[DJT]! [DJT] in Your Pocket to go: Over 175 Timeless Quotes . . .
(Lifehacker Books)
I've also come to believe in luck.
I've known people who have worked hard and done everything to succeed,
and yet it just doesn't seem to happen for them. I'm not sure what the
concrete reasons might be, but it makes me believe in luck to
a certain extent.
from Think
Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life, by DJT
(Vanguard Press, 2010), pgs. 59-60
[DJT] suspends retail leasing
effort: 'I'm in no rush'
The big retail space in
[DJT]'s riverfront skyscraper has sat empty so long that the brash New York
developer has stopped courting tenants to fill it. . . .
[DJT] also is looking at two
other potential deals in the Chicago area, but declines to provide specifics.
“I don't want to jinx the
deal,” he says.
(source)
[DJT] negotiated for fifteen
months with the city of New Rochelle for rights to develop David's Island. The
price was $13 million but [DJT] offered $12,999,999.99: "Being superstitious,
I thought I might make it a little bit complicated."
New York Daily News,
1/12/96, quoted in The
World According to [DJT]: An Unauthorized Portrait in His Own Words, by
Ken Lawrence & [DJT] (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005)
“Well, I’ve really worked on
this hard,” [DJT] joked Tuesday morning during an interview with “Fox & Friends”
when asked whether he knew who he will vote for. . . .
“Well, it’s very exciting,”
[DJT] said about Election Day. “You know, I’ve spoken to you folks for a lot
during our very successful primaries. Oftentimes, every single one I was
speaking to you in the morning so I’m a little bit superstitious.
So when you said, 'please call,' I said I’ll call. But I won many primaries
speaking to you first thing in the morning, so I’m gonna keep that string
going.”
(source)
People ask me what happened to
my signature red power ties. Nothing. i still have them; I just
like going the gamut now. . . . I also happen to be a little superstitious.
For example, I had been thinking that red ties brought me luck, so I kept
wearing them. Then one day when I was wearing a big, bright red tie, I
got creamed in a court decision. After that, I decided no more red ties
for a while.
from [T]: Think Like aBillionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life,
by DJT & Meredith McIver (Random House, 2004)
I used to wear red ties
all the time and I had a lot of good luck, and then one day I got creamed in a
deal I was doing and I was wearing a red tie. After that I don't wear red ties
too much anymore. You never blame yourself; you have to blame something
else. If you do something bad never, ever blame yourself.
(source)
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