Trump Never Give Up

refusing to give up is probably your best strategy

I often tell people that I listen to everyone, but the decision will ultimately be mine. That’s a good way to be in life and in business. Listen to others, but never negate your own instincts.

I’ve always told people to know what they were doing first, to do due diligence to the nth degree, to be cautiously optimistic. I suddenly found myself wondering why I didn’t heed my own advice. I was facing a lot of new issues where I wasn’t yet an expert. However, I was excited about the fact that we were building something outstanding, and that kept me going.

Building Trump International Golf Club

Hemingway wrote the now familiar phrase, “Courage is grace under pressure.” Think about it. Some days we are faced with challenges that we’d rather not have to deal with, but we get up and deal with them anyway. That’s courage. It requires a certain poise. Maybe it’s not heroic, maybe every day isn’t going to bring a calamitous situation, but it’s an example of bravery that we can all understand.

Winston Churchill was a great orator, but I read that he spent a lot of time developing this skill. He wasn’t a natural in the beginning, but he worked at it until he mastered it. He became a powerful and mesmerizing speaker. One of his most famous speeches during World War II included these words:
Never, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Courage means never giving up. It’s much easier to give up, and that’s exactly what losers do. Being knocked down is one thing—staying down is another.

COURAGE ISN’T THE ABSENCE OF FEAR, IT’S THE CONQUERING OF FEAR

Dale Frey called to tell me that while he liked my plans a lot, they were putting the job out to bid.

I like challenges and this had become an even bigger one, not that I was happy about it. So