Donald Trumps Advice on Choosing a Career

Donald Trumps:
If I were going to give career advice to somebody it would be that you have to love it! You have to really want it! You have to really love what you're doing! There are so many people that are forced by family pressure or something into doing something that they don't believe in, that they don't like. You've got to go after the kind of job you like. You may love the airline business, the airline business is a terrible business, but you probably do better within the airline business if you love it than you were better in other businesses than the airline business if you don't, so you have to go into something that you like. There are many stories of people who became successful later in their life by doing other things and they got out of something that they didn't like, and one of them is a friend of mine.

He was a failure in Wall Street, his family was really important and big on Wall Street but he wasn't cut out for it, he wasn't tough enough for it, he probably wasn't smart enough for it and he was a failure on Wall Street. And all of his life he was just borne to be on Wall Street but it didn't work out that way. So he stayed and he didn't do particularly well but he stayed and stayed and I used to tell him just go out and do something else. But then what happened is at his golf course they made him the head of the greens committee. They were doing all of the fairways, all of the greens and they did it all because they felt sorry for him and nobody else wanted the job. And he did a spectacular job, he was there at 5am in the morning with the contractors, he worked really hard, he wouldn't get home until 8.30 in the evening, he loved what he was doing. And I told him: 'you're going out there to build golf courses, this is what you're good at.' And he laughed at me said: 'I can never do that, I have to be on Wall Street, I'm expected to be on Wall Street.' I said: 'Yeah but you're not happy and you're not good at it.' He said: 'it doesn't matter, I'm expected to be there.'

Well he went back, he was miserable, and ultimately about five years ago he developed a gold course building business where he renovates and build golf courses, he's doing a spectacular job. It couldn't be better, he couldn't be happier, it's the first time in his life he's doing well and the first time in his life he's happy.