Unfortunately his strength in real estate depends heavily upon government cooperation...hence the strange alliances that would normally go against a principled person.
Now maybe, I'd be cutting off my nose to spite my own business success by not doing business with some of these perverted creatures but that's what I would do.

We have many failures in government, in fact most of what government does fails miserably. They find deficiencies and then propose THEIR solutions, which generally go down in flames. Then they blame it on insufficient funds and if they get them, more failure ensues. Then the programs are hidden from view so we cant see how bad they are.

If our politicians did things as well as Trump, there would be no need for Trump to clean it up.

Oh Dear....Momaemma:
If that happened to me I might have done something that would have gotten me in trouble. Normally, I am as mild mannered as Clark Kent, but I do have a short fuse and as I get very old, must keep it together. There is nothing funnier than a geezer doing something obscene.

I am a retired military person, so, my income is public knowledge. So--How successful are you? Why act so child like? The man is certainly not a failure. Mr. Trump loves my/ours/your country.

Hopefully, we learn QUICKLY from failure !! Even Edison failed with DC power, but wasnt able to just pivot and adopt AC power. He had the chance with Tesla as an employee. Pivoting and reinventing your business when you face failure is very important, and Trump has done that. I give him credit for it too.

You are just a Trump hater. You would complain about him no matter what he did or said.

YES. The key to a good buinessperson is that they get back up and keep trying. We dont find out HOW to start and run businesses in the government indoctrination centers (public schools). We have to learn that as we go- just the way it is.

You got it !!!! I have had enough of this from our freeloading muslim black socialist president and his cronies. Time for REAL change.

Trump at least has done something with his life, as opposed to the rest of the politicians who have done nothing but steal and spend our money.

As a scientist I realize that we learn far more from our failures than from our successes. But to do so we must admit the failure and its value as a teacher. To deny failure is to deny the value of experience.

It is not an advantage to have a president who will attempt hundreds of unconstitutional things without considering the consequences because he has the power and a blank check.

I have seen something similar, but it needs to be pointed out as often as possible.

Either Hillary or Donald will make horrible presidents (especially because they are following the disaster of Obama), however I think Donald will win

Thanks. I'll check them out.

I bet the author of that article is not worth $4 billion. Trump evidently got a $1 million loan from his father in the late 60's. How many of you have returns of 400,000% since then. He inherited what, after estate taxes, would have been less than $50 million in the late 90's. Already a paltry sum for him. Even if it was all he owned at the time though he has earned an 8000% return on it. How many of you have done that well over the last 18 years?

I agree that the article I posted is biased against Trump but it shows something important about Trump. He isn't the business genius he claims to be..
The article you posted shows us something important about Trump and about business.
Trump is successful when he sticks to his "strength": promoting himself (and his ample ego) in real estate in the locale where he has the greatest ability to use his pull.
That particular "strength" is not what is needed in a president with such massive and far reaching power at his disposal. It is a recipe for dictatorship and disaster.

Obviously not true but his FEC financial disclosure indicates 515 entities. If you have that many things you are doing, you are pretty much guaranteed to have a number of clunkers in the mix.

Here is a list of the 268 things that he is running that he has the Trump name on out of the 515 listed in the FEC financial disclosure.

http://qz.com/461688/a-list-of-everyt...

Cruz has a better plan to deal with that than Trump, actually.

The premise that one must necessarily fail before being able to succeed .. or that failure breeds success.. is extraordinarily weak.

This is funny and sad...at least Romney was successful...think about that!

The real issue with "The Donald" is whether or not people are voting on substance or just talk. I'd love to see a list of all the successful business ventures he's gone into to present a complete comparison, but that's an awfully long list of failures that weren't even good ideas in the first place.

Most of the things I saw on that list were simply Trump's attempts to get others to buy into his ego. It's even less excusable from a person with a Wharton MBA who should be able to do risk analysis, business projections, and market analysis.

Everyone wants the "perfect" candidate. Since none of us are perfect, a great deal of time is spent by many pointing out the imperfections of candidates they don't like. If I wanted a very good businessman with a solid grasp of economics, my first choice would be Steve Forbes, but he failed at his run for the Presidency.

The reality is that the election game is a kind of beauty contest of a very twisted sort, hosted by the media. Qualifications are only part of the game, as the media quickly dismisses those candidates with a less than dynamic personality.

Nice guys are painted as lackluster or simply uninteresting. Witness the demise of Huckabee, Carson, and Walker. Candidates with a message deemed "too intellectual" are painted as out of touch with the regular people, and there goes Rand Paul. Gary Johnson suffers the same fate.

So we're left with the hucksters, preachers, and shysters. Ideologues like Cruz make for stimulating press exchanges, as it's easy to pose questions that make them look rigid and cruel. The media obsesses over Trump because it's so easy to paint him in a bad light, and they can't figure out why that doesn't destroy him like it would other politicians.

Populism is a force that breaks all the rules, and Donald Trump has ridden that force farther than anyone imagined. Will it carry him to the White House? We'll have to wait and see.

Absolutely correct WilliamShipley! It's the good old 80/20 rule on which I commented below in more detail.