Entertaining and valuable account of how to play the Trump card

A few months ago I played golf on a spectacular golf course in the Caribbean called the Trump International Golf Club and was impressed at the huge investment in such a faraway resort.I questioned the gamble of putting so much money into such a venture and the confidence of somebody to do that.So, with an inquisitive mind, I picked up Think Like a Champion to see if I could learn more about this man who appears to succeed at every project he pursues; real estate, entertainment, golf course development and TV – all seem to respond to his Midas touch...

EU must be involved because this issue affects the secular lives of most citizens.

Lasy year, Easter fell so early (March 23rd) that it caused a major inconvenience to most people. As the parents of schoolchildren will remember, their kids were hardly back after Christmas when it was already time for the mid-term break. And they started their Easter holidays even before St Patrick’s Day.

That is a big problem for the tourism industry and for its customers - it means that every year they have a different product to sell, and every year the post-Easter early summer period starts at a different time...

The financial and economic crisis that has convulsed the world in recent months has prompted an array of justifiably angry interrogations by citizens of their policymakers, their regulators and their bankers. How was this allowed to happen? Why was nothing done to stop it? How was it not spotted sooner?

An assessment of any project must include the cost to surrounding businesses and people.

Fiddling with an allen key in order to assemble a flat-pack coffee table is an almost universal experience for people across the developed world. But while the process of assembling a table usually involves little more than a puzzled examination of the instruction leaflet, the construction of the large out-of-town stores where such tables are bought is far more complex...

"The man who brought 'Ireland's first supermarket' to Dundalk recalled yesterday the exciting days of setting up the Clanbrassil Street store almost 50 years ago..."

 by Anne Campell, published in The Argus

Dear Santa, You must be surprised to receive this letter from me after 50 years of my not writing. I know I didn't thank you after the very last gift you gave, but let me say that the toy fire engine was great. I still have it in the attic somewhere.

I'm writing now because Irish business is struggling this year and I thought you could help. My cousin is a banker and he doesn't even believe in you, but he's getting such a lovely gift that I thought I couldn't go wrong by putting pen to paper and asking for some modest help from you.

In the Irish Times on the 25th September 2004, I said:

By making the right investment, we can immediately cut our road deaths to the lowest levels of any country in the world. As a businessman, I am attracted by the fact that the return on this investment would be both sizeable and fast.