Post A3bPMqxdvDDX0V64Ui by holdthephoneshow@social.quodverum.com
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(DIR) Post #A3bN291JNp991joJaS by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:41:46Z
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'He has the uncanny ability to smell blood in the water,' a competitor says.https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/08/magazine/the-expanding-empire-of-donald-trump.html
(DIR) Post #A3bNJWpC8DyzmKQrMe by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:44:54Z
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"He does not seem to write anything down, keeping volumes of company files as mental notes.""...was married to Donald Trump seven years ago by the family's minister, the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale."
(DIR) Post #A3bNPGXRb3JT0Mri7c by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:45:56Z
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3) Says Louise M. Sunshine, another executive vice president: 'If it is not the impossible, Donald is simply not interested. There has to be creativity. Money ceased to be the object a long time ago.' Mr. Trump agrees with this assessment.
(DIR) Post #A3bNUKCNPp2BnxQJsW by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:46:51Z
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4) "she and Mr. Trump make thousands of decisins, from picking all the wallpapers, curtain backings and braid for the doormen's uniforms to menus and doorknobs."
(DIR) Post #A3bNbCzibBcnULmjvk by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:48:06Z
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4) "...attention to detail is exceptional. Workmen at the Trump Plaza say that ona recent visit, Mr. Trump spotted a hairline crack that others could barely detect in a bathroom of one of the 140 cooperative apartments. He not only complained but stood there until a work crew came and replaced the marble."
(DIR) Post #A3bNkWlATtQJObQHUu by SusanInVA@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:49:46Z
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@AmareVita Thank you for sharing!!😀 Donald Trump, who is excited about putting up the most distinctive buildings imaginable, seems positively dangerous. One can almost imagine this: 'Phil, I'd like to build a 135-story cheeseburger on Park Avenue.' 'Lettuce and tomato on that, Don?' 🏗🌆 🍔🥬🍅
(DIR) Post #A3bNlwzkQPNF3IvARM by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:50:00Z
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5) "Although partners in the development say Mr. Trump is considering joining them in the project, a knowledgeable source says Mr. Trump left the meeting with an option to buy them out entirely."
(DIR) Post #A3bNyHHunlrTStISpM by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:52:16Z
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5) "'He is an almost unbelievable negotiator,' says Irving Fischer of HRH Construction....We just say: 'Tell us what you want, you're going to get it anyway.''"
(DIR) Post #A3bO0h3vwZnxyxuPrM by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:52:42Z
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6) "Mr. Trump refuses to discuss his deals publicly, but his negotiating abilities were there for all to see recently when he decided to sign the Giant's all-pro linebacker...."Mr. Taylor's agent found himself paying Mr. Trump $750,000 in cash to get his player released from a contract he signed with the Fenerals so that he could re-sign with the Giants, and Mr. Trump had reaped millins of dollars of free publicity for having gone after one of the best players in football."
(DIR) Post #A3bO55fEPxG1RPS2l6 by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:53:30Z
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7) "'Trump can sense when people might want to get out of a project,' says a developer, 'and he moves in, very quickly and very quietly so others will not get into the bidding and drive the price up. He trusts his instincts and has the guts to act on them.'"
(DIR) Post #A3bO6lihXXpOAHsHbc by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:53:48Z
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8) "'He has an uncanny sense of knowing that something is a good deal when it looks dismal to everyone else.'"
(DIR) Post #A3bOAEAQEN9nGEURWa by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:54:26Z
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9) "Fred Trump described his son's efforts to buy the hotel as 'fighting for a seat on the Titanic.' But, Donald Trump says, 'I saw all those people coming out of Grand Central Terminal, and I said to myself, 'How bad can this be?'' He completely renovated the hotel,..."
(DIR) Post #A3bOF4BAnE0pjR9HLU by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:55:18Z
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10) "In Atlantic City, he invested $1 million in land and other costs before the referendum on gambling was passed in 1976. By the early 1980's, his investment was $22 million. 'Everyone said STAY AWAY FROM Atlantic City,' Mr. Trump says. 'Everybody but about four guys. I was one of the four.'"
(DIR) Post #A3bOJUcyOt3Wv0GLia by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:56:06Z
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11) "He had moved in quietly, sending 14 different people to purchase 15 parcels of land and keeping his name out of it. 'If the seller was Italian,' says Mr. Trump, 'we sent an Italian' - something he probably did not learn at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance, where he received a B.A. in economics in 1968. He bought and sold a few pieces of real estate in Philadelphia when he was bored with classes."
(DIR) Post #A3bON8WOX44xW2vHqC by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:56:46Z
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12) "His success also derives from his marketing skills. 'I want to bring a little showmanship to real estate,' Mr. Trumps says. "
(DIR) Post #A3bORUuVEVnC70HLu4 by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:57:33Z
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13) "Some developers find Mr. Trump's high-profile approach disagreeable, but most concede that it has worked for him." 'He captured the imagination of people to a greater degree than I could.'"
(DIR) Post #A3bOXHSEAvUE7GoLAm by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:58:35Z
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14) "According to a marketing study of four such buildings made by the Prudential Insurance Company of America, Donald Trump seems to be the only person in New York who knows how to market super luxury apartments. How do you sell a one-bedroom apartment costing as much as a line item in the Department of Defense budget?"
(DIR) Post #A3bOZeRbfbKnzueQ76 by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:59:01Z
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15) " 'He spent $1 million on the waterfall in Trump Tower. No one else would have done that."
(DIR) Post #A3bOdhejfdyb7JiwvQ by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T16:59:45Z
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16) "'What sets Trump apart,' says Ben V. Lambert, a real-estate investment banker, 'is his ability to pierce through the canvas and get things don.He gets projects literally off the ground while others are having meetings and doing feasibility studies. But his real skill is putting together complex pieces of the puzzles: financing, zoning, parcels of land and such. This ethereal part of building is perhaps more important than the brick and mortar.'"
(DIR) Post #A3bOhqNFCRgpJUW6qG by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:00:30Z
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17) " 'Donald Trump runs with the same clique that continues to manipulate things behind the scenes in this city,' Mr. Stern then charged."
(DIR) Post #A3bOoi84Fgfhlmh0KW by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:01:44Z
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18) "'Donald Trump, Mr. Stern concludes, 'is a transplanted 19th-century swashbuckling entrepreneur, and it is up to public officials to rein him in. I don't so much fault him for asking the city for things as I do public officials who gave him his way.'It is not a crime to contribute to politicians,' says Mr. Stern. 'For a New York real-estate developer not to contribute would probably make him look overtly hostile."
(DIR) Post #A3bOvNOfjSLpUsdb3A by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:02:57Z
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"Some people still worry about Mr. Trump's political connections...."'He seems to get his way in this city,' she says. Mr. Trump is rather astonished that people feel this way after the city denied him a tax abatement on Trump Tower worth about $15 million to $20 million."
(DIR) Post #A3bOzDvAu9lXGbfukq by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:03:39Z
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20) "Mrs. Messinger does not much care for Mr. Trump's 'contentiousness' in pressing a lawsuit against the city over refusal of his tax abatement on Trump Tower or for his filing suit against the official who refused it, Anthony Gliedman, the city's Housing Commissioner. Says Roy Cohn: 'You don't use the term 'settlement' with Donald.'"
(DIR) Post #A3bP4Ij0TKCRc5P91M by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:04:33Z
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21) "Mr. Trump has filed suits against several of the tenants and Housing Court judges have thrown several of the suits out f court on grounds that they were brought in bad faith to harass and annoy the tenants and were a blatant attempt to force the tenants out through spurious and unnecessary litigation."
(DIR) Post #A3bPAt0qT4tZtYt9TE by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:05:45Z
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22) "Mr. Trump does not place patience on his list of virtues.""It is often pointed out that Mr. Trump is prone to exaggeration in describing his projects. Oh, he lies a great deal, says Philip Johnson with a laugh. But it's sheer exuberance, exaggeration. It's never about anything important. He's straight as an arrow in his business dealings."
(DIR) Post #A3bPGR1nQY3Sq7yliC by holdthephoneshow@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:06:45Z
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@AmareVita Anyone looking for something important to read should read this thread.
(DIR) Post #A3bPMqxdvDDX0V64Ui by holdthephoneshow@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:07:55Z
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@AmareVita Anyone looking for something important to read should read this thread.https://social.quodverum.com/@AmareVita/105617352695681439
(DIR) Post #A3bPOaCZCfjTblu06y by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:08:14Z
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23) "Mr. Trump will admit that, yes he paid less than one-third of that and says: I didn't tell them that."...the figure is closer to $1 million. Mr. Trump answers: I never told them those other figures."..."not list him as graduating with honors of any kind. He says he never told them that either."
(DIR) Post #A3bPRQE4kVW1XPxgtk by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:08:45Z
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24) "...Mr. Trump returns to his office and momentarily takes a seat behind a desk big enough for F-14 landings. The office is not, however, what is known in the decorating profession as a power office, the kind common among top executives that is designed to induce groveling. It is of casual, modern decor with models of buildings and blue-prints scattered about."
(DIR) Post #A3bPVZrer6smabSQm8 by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:09:26Z
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25) "He speaks slowly and softly and in the same casual manner to eminent architects and business moguls as to the coffee and sandwich vendor outside his casino-hotel. He is said, by acquaintances, to be generally even tempered and rarely seems ruffled. He is not given to unkind remarks and is nearly always in a positive frame of mind. I never think of the negative, he says. All obstacles can be overcome."
(DIR) Post #A3bPZANZYEJshs63LE by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:10:08Z
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26) "He talks boastfully about his projects, but is uncomfortable talking about himself. He does not smoke and does not drink alcohol. He plays golf and tennis regularly. His wife describes him as an all-American boy who likes country music best and prefers a steak and baked potato to anything called cuisine."
(DIR) Post #A3bPe5uPbCoWI2o5NA by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:11:02Z
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27) "His smile is an impudent-looking curl of the lip that makes his protrait appear less like the head of a billion-dollar corporation in his office than Elvis Presley in Viva Las Vegas.He has boyish looks that are accentuated by the company he keeps. His equals in the business world are all much older than he and these are the people he most often socializes with. He has difficulty now figuring out who his real friends are, as billionaires will."
(DIR) Post #A3bPlgS08UwpeK8Xyq by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:12:24Z
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28) "He has not yet indulged in planes, race cars, polo ...art work, yachts, and the like. He says he doesn't have time for all of that now and prefers putting his money back into his deals.... We don't want to sit on a yacht all day. His father pulled Donald Trump out of a prep school because he didn't want his son growing up with spoiled kids with $40 ball gloves, sending him instead to military school. His father bragged at the sports forum that he had taken the subway and saved $15 car fare.
(DIR) Post #A3bPw2R9FLjMjafvma by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:14:16Z
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29) "spend two or three nights a week at home with the children,""Mr. Trump seems to have maintained a detached view of his flood of fortune and publicity. He frequently mentions that all of the attention and success may well be fleeting."His friends say that he is not yet fully cognizant of his station. He loves to got to '21' for lunch and be impressed with all the wealthy, powerful, famous people, says an acquaintance. He doesn't quite realize that he's one of them."
(DIR) Post #A3bQ1oSG91Kx6hwsDY by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:15:19Z
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30) "He talked about his plans for the future, as much as anyone who operates on spontaneous combustion can."The football thing is cute, Trump Tower and the piano and all of that, it's all cute, but what does it mean? he says, sounding what borders on a note of uncharacteristic despair."Asked to explain, he adds: What does it all mean when some wacko over in Syria can end the world with nuclear weapons?"
(DIR) Post #A3bQ4TTMc1GCtujaLY by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:15:48Z
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31) "He says that his concern for nuclear holocaust is not one that popped into his mind during any recent made-of-television movie. He says that it has been troubling him since his uncle, a nuclear physicist, began talking to him about it 15 years ago."
(DIR) Post #A3bQ8ROEIXK3bEDxUu by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:16:31Z
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32) "His greatest dream is to personally do something about the problem and, characteristically, Donald Trump thinks he has an answer to nuclear armament: Let him negotiate arms agreements - he who can talk people into selling $100 million properties to him for $13 million. Negotiations is an art, he says and I have a gift for it."
(DIR) Post #A3bQCVtpTOKikCwkjo by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:17:15Z
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33) ***********"The idea that he would ever be allowed to got into a room alone and negotiate for the United States, let alone be successful in disarming the world, seems the naive musing of an optimistic, deluded young man who has never lost at anything he has tried. But he believes that through years of making his views known and through supporting candidates who share his views, it could someday happen."
(DIR) Post #A3bQF6VyJFuesq1TP6 by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:17:42Z
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34) "He is constantly asked about his interest in running for elective office. Absolutely not, he answers. All of the false smiles and the red tape. It is too difficult to really do anything."
(DIR) Post #A3bQORLMEoSE5aVfkG by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:19:24Z
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35) "meeting of the New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission." He's late; their annoyed, slouched in a chair, "When he finally speaks up, he says hat he is on the commission because the young men who went to Vietnam got a bad deal - which, about the worst thing that can happen to anyone."
(DIR) Post #A3bQTrBjZiOxh2ajOS by AmareVita@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:20:23Z
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36) "Then, we're going to have the fund-raiser at Trump Tower, he says, punching through the canvas. I've called the White House. The President is coming, so we can raise the price of the 800 tickets from $500 to $1,000. That will just about put you where you want to be."
(DIR) Post #A3bR1HlVmcANg1GYpE by GmanFan45@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:26:26Z
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@AmareVita this is absolutely true. Trump signed Taylor which was unimaginable at the time.
(DIR) Post #A3bSyM5DTNrW6kDHdI by SusanInVA@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T17:48:18Z
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@AmareVita Thank you for sharing!!😀 Donald Trump, who is excited about putting up the most distinctive buildings imaginable, seems positively dangerous. One can almost imagine this: 'Phil, I'd like to build a 135-story cheeseburger on Park Avenue.' 'Lettuce and tomato on that, Don?' 🏗 🌆 🍔 🥬 🍅
(DIR) Post #A3bfN9jhiMxQVIk9nk by Linnie@social.quodverum.com
2021-01-25T20:07:15Z
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@AmareVita Beautiful.