Averaging the American Political Science Association and Siena ratings and organized by primary pre-presidential vocation and background, from most to least successful the ranking is: career politician (FDR), career politician (TR); career politician and failed businessman (Truman); Army General (Ike); professor/politician (Wilson); career politician (JFK); career politician (LBJ); actor and union organizer (Reagan) tied with career politician (Clinton); community organizer and career politician (Obama), successful businessman/politician (GHWB); career politician (Taft); career politician (Ford); successful businessman/politician (Carter); successful businessman (Coolidge); career politician (Nixon); successful businessman (GWB); successful businessman (Hoover); successful businessman (Harding).
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"I was supporting Mr. Trump because he is a very successful businessman, he is very shrewd and I thought the United States now needs a successful businessman rather than a politician," Habtoor said.
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I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star….
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That is how he became a successful businessman and entertainer.
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These were ostensibly brought up to prove the main point of Trump's campaign, which is that he is a successful businessman who can be a good president by doing successful businessman things, like negotiating.
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LEVIN: You know, you&aposre an entrepreneur, a very successful businessman.
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Even though he's a very successful businessman, his passion is cooking.
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She and her husband, a successful businessman, started living more simply.
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Only one of these was a successful businessman (George H.W. Bush).
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During an interview with Bloomberg News published Thursday, Obama was asked whether Trump's criticism of his economic and trade policy bothered him, considering that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee considers himself the most successful businessman in the U.S. "Well, I — there's no successful businessman in America who actually thinks the most successful businessman in the country is Donald Trump," Obama responded.
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This new reputation as a "successful businessman" was key in his campaign.
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He is a, obviously, successful businessman, he's a very well-informed investor.
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Kevin is a very successful businessman who will be a fantastic Governor.
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It's one advantage to having a successful businessman in the Oval Office.
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A formerly successful businessman fled the constant threat of kidnapping and violence.
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Highly successful businessman and three-term mayor of the country's largest city.
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My husband was a successful businessman; I took care of our home.
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She sees Trump today as a successful businessman with a good moral compass.
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A successful businessman before entering politics, Mr. Bennett operated quietly in the Senate.
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"Most importantly, he's a successful businessman, not a career politician," Trump Jr. added.
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Drake isn't just an internationally known rapper — he's also an incredibly successful businessman.
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Previously a successful businessman, he has now lost his friends, family and business.
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He's far from the only successful businessman to focus on living an appreciative life.
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Each one argued that, as a successful businessman, he would make a fine president.
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AndI know you are a part is guy, Goldman and a very successful businessman.
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Romney, a successful businessman, lost the 2012 presidential election to Democratic incumbent Barack Obama.
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More than being known as a rapper, I want to be a successful businessman.
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Its first owner, David Daniel Merritt, was a successful businessman with a large family.
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But they also understood that Trump's weakness is that he's not really a successful businessman.
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He's obviously a very successful businessman and takes that same approach to his racing team.
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I am a successful businessman, and grew my construction business to employ more than 1,000 workers.
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Before becoming the most powerful man in the world, President Trump was a highly successful businessman.
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At one point, the M.C. tells Mr. Kadyrov what a successful businessman Andrei is in Moscow.
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Mr. Lamont, a successful businessman, wants to attract business by investing in transportation and training workers.
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Since retiring from the NBA in 2011, Shaquille O'Neal has established himself as a successful businessman.
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However, this successful businessman, who boasts a net worth of $2.9 billion, wasn't born into wealth.
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She, like her father Assinapol Rwigara -- a successful businessman -- were at one time strong Kagame supporters.
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"Trump spent decades building his brand and his image as a successful businessman," Mr. Loeser said.
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Although I didn't realize it at the time, I was priming myself to become a successful businessman.
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A transition official accused Democrats of running a smear campaign and lauded Puzder as a successful businessman.
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"successful businessman" blather, and see a pragmatic venerable elder—something he would have to be to have
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Trump, who likes to pose as a successful businessman, seems not to understand the value of innovation.
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Trump's a successful businessman, and I feel like that's what America needs to bring our economy back.
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Mr. Trump has called Mr. Romney "irrelevant" and once bragged that he was a more successful businessman.
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In all fairness, I was a very successful businessman but I was one of a lot of people.
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Her stepfather, a successful businessman, was an alcoholic who derided Gaston's Jewish heritage and allegedly sexually assaulted her.
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Mr Street is a successful businessman, the former managing director of John Lewis, rather than a Tory politician.
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Kushner, as Spiers points out, has never been a successful businessman outside of his family's real estate dynasty.
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The tax story -- which could undermine Trump's image as a successful businessman -- will dominate the next few days.
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Before that, Botas was a successful businessman who moved his family to Madrid when Silva was a child.
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Romney had staked much of his campaign on his identity as a successful businessman in the private sector.
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There are big differences between the solopreneur I was at 29 and the successful businessman I am today.
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He told CNN en Español that Erlij was a successful businessman who loved his family of four children.
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Who better to spread that message than an enormously successful businessman who built an empire and employs thousands?
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A successful businessman like Trump understands, better than any career politician, the evils of cradle-to-grave socialism.
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As a successful businessman and the former mayor of New York, Bloomberg represents the financial and political establishment.
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Mr. Bush was a star college baseball player, a war hero and a successful businessman before entering politics.
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"Mike Ilitch was more than just a shrewd, successful businessman," Detroit's mayor, Mike Duggan, said in a statement.
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As a self-made billionaire and successful businessman he also matches one of the president's biggest claims for himself.
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Hoffman also scoffed at the candidate's $916 million loss, suggesting it weakened his claim of being a successful businessman.
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As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump sold himself as a successful businessman and deal-maker who gets things done.
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His second son James is also a successful businessman, attending the wedding with his wife of 16 years, Kathryn.
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His father, Prescott Bush, was a successful businessman and banker who went on to represent Connecticut in the Senate.
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"Todd Ricketts is an immensely successful businessman with unparalleled knowledge of the finance industry," Trump said in a statement.
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"Fifteen years ago, to be a successful businessman, you have to have access to those in power," he said.
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He said he was a "VERY successful businessman" and television star who won the presidency on his first try.
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One skinny kid who begged candy from passing Marines in 1967 is now a friend and a successful businessman.
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The first successful businessman comes in at position 11, George H.W. Bush; of the bottom five, four were businessmen.
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Prior to this election, the stereotype of Donald Trump — the System 1 image — was of a highly successful businessman.
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He looked every inch the successful businessman, which is what he was until early in the morning of Nov.
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Picture a faithful family man, not a serial sexual assaulter, a successful businessman, not a cheat and con artist.
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Bloomberg, on the other hand, is a successful businessman and philanthropist, who built his fortune from the ground up.
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On the one hand, they probably thought a successful businessman would value a reputation as a man of his word.
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Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, attributed Trump's early advantage to his reputation as a successful businessman.
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I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star ... to President of the United States (on my first try).
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Reasons vary, but most believe that Trump, as a successful businessman, will be the best for the economy and entrepreneurship.
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At the time, Gutierrez, now 38, was a successful businessman operating an entertainment and marketing business in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
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Mr. Trump's principal argument for why he should lead the country is that he is a successful businessman and billionaire.
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And Trump, he of the many bankruptcies and a fraud-plagued "university," is the most successful businessman of our day.
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Making it clear that Mr. Ma, the most successful businessman in China, is a member could strengthen the party's legitimacy.
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Today, he is a successful businessman and pharmacist who has repaid society for the support he and his family received.
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I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star..... ....to President of the United States (on my first try).
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I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star..... ....to President of the United States (on my first try).
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I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star to President of the United States (on my first try).
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I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star..... ....to President of the United States (on my first try).
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Sustiel began selling cheap perfume in Miami, and over the next several years, he developed a reputation as a successful businessman.
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Being a successful businessman over the past several decades has come at a cost—that is, the passage of those decades.
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Donald Trump, widely known for playing a successful businessman on TV, has some pointed business advice for Amazon: beware the regulator.
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He's fighting to establish his new identity after losing his old one as a successful businessman, husband, home-owner, and father.
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Yet Trump is an adult, a supposedly successful businessman making a bid for the most important political office in the world.
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Trump captured the presidency by casting himself as a successful businessman whose vast personal fortune would insulate him from Washington's corruption.
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Though Donald J. Trump has positioned himself as a successful businessman, economists have warned of market upheavals if he is elected.
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But what's even worse is that he has declared that he'll be a great president because he's such a successful businessman.
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"As a successful businessman, Trump definitely won't ignore the huge size of China's consumer base," said Li Yang, 25, a designer.
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Fuller had been a successful businessman, a self-made millionaire, before giving up his wealth to focus on Christian service work.
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Michigan flipped to Mr. Trump, she insisted, because its residents believe he is a successful businessman who can turn things around.
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On one hand, Robert was a highly successful businessman and noted philanthropist, someone akin to Hong Kong's version of Andrew Carnegie.
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The attributes of a great political leader are often different, or possibly even in opposition to, the attributes of a successful businessman.
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Yet he was also a bold and successful businessman, a noted art collector, a generous patron and philanthropist and a capable administrator.
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Yet he was also a bold and successful businessman, a noted collector, a generous patron and philanthropist and a capable arts administrator.
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THE SECOND POINT, HE'S A VERY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN AND HE'S A VERY SAVVY, KNOWLEDGEABLE INVESTOR AND HAS HIS OPINIONS ABOUT THESE THINGS.
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You know as well as I do - or any successful businessman does - that a sale can be lost in the first impression.
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With Jerry gone, Jeanette sets her sights on Warren Miller (Bill Camp) a successful businessman whose been taking swimming lessons from her.
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"My husband would be proud because he was a very successful businessman, so I'm sure he would have loved that," Campbell said.
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Many of Trump's supporters are under the impression that Trump is a successful businessman who will bring his management expertise to Washington.
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But if they reveal that he's not the successful businessman he's been saying he is, that could be a really big deal.
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A major premise of Donald Trump's presidential campaign was that as a successful businessman, he would be "greedy" on behalf of America.
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He had been a very successful businessman under the Shah, and the founder of an athletic club and a profitable bowling alley.
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Rather than a wealth tax, successful businessman and businesswomen should be pushed to donate more, according to e-commerce billionaire Michael Rubin.
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That said, he's obviously a very successful businessman and has created jobs and generated a lot of resources for himself and his companies.
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Trump's campaign for president rests on the notion that he is a successful businessman and that he will run the country like one.
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It was past time for a change and Trump, a successful businessman who shared their disdain for politics as usual, embodied that change.
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A former mayor of Chattanooga and successful businessman, Corker is expected to win easily if he does run in the solidly Republican state.
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" Trump went on ... "I went from VERY successful businessman to top T.V. Star ... to President of the United States (on my first try).
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John's a West Point grad, Apache helicopter pilot who served our nation in Iraq, & a successful businessman that has created JOBS in Michigan.
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His true calling seems to be acting like a successful businessman — a performance made all the more impressive by its distance from reality.
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"The president has been a very successful businessman on a number of fronts and a number of areas and industries," Spicer told reporters.
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Like Mr. Massey, Mr. Bloomberg was a successful businessman with no previous experience running for office, who sold himself as a competent manager.
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"I am a successful businessman who started a business and built it over almost 30 years into something very successful," Mr. Mareshki said.
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As a successful businessman, not a political hack, Trump knows that it's production that actually matters, that not all jobs are created equally.
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Two days earlier, on February 8th, Chris Kennedy, a Democrat and successful businessman, declared his intention to run for governor of Illinois next year.
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Calling Trump a "semi-successful businessman," Kristol said House Speaker Paul Ryan's reluctance to support the billionaire real estate mogul should give voters pause.
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Edmund "EQ" Sylvester was a successful businessman for many years, traveling the world, working for General Electric, and eventually setting off on his own.
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Once a successful businessman, he now lives with an elderly aunt and spends his days undergoing tests (sometimes cruel, even sadistic) at the institute.
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But today, the retired athlete has made a name for himself as a successful businessman, growing his fortune through various investments and business ventures.
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The report gave another headache to the Trump campaign, as it threatened the central thesis of his campaign, that he is a successful businessman.
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This presidential election is a choice between a successful businessman or a Washington insider who has been involved in government for her entire life.
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Highlighting his experience as a successful businessman and politician, Bloomberg spoke about revitalizing communities that have been "left behind" by an increasingly automated economy.
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That's not exactly impressive to voters, especially when your one claim to be qualified for the presidency is your record as a successful businessman.
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" Anthony had ambitions to become a successful businessman and entrepreneur, Kiara tells PEOPLE: "He always used to say he wanted to open his own bank.
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Trump is a successful businessman who understands what a simplified tax system that lowers taxes on job-creating businesses and individuals can do for America.
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As a public policy, it would foreclose any successful businessman who wants to continue to own his enterprise in the future from running for president.
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A successful businessman, Palmer owned a golf course design firm and a golf resort in Orlando, Florida, and was considered a pioneer in sports marketing.
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The answer, I suspect, is that voters see Mr. Trump as a hugely successful businessman, and they believe that business success translates into economic expertise.
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His candidacy is premised on the fact that as a successful businessman, he could take those skills and use them to effectively run the country.
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Trump has been a successful businessman and is the only candidate who "provides common sense solutions to the problems that face everyday Americans," Miller said.
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Asked what his parents did for a living, Mr. Jin said his father was a successful businessman back in China but declined to provide details.
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Bloomberg, a successful businessman who is worth over $50 billion, brought on a huge staff of well over 1,000 to work on his presidential campaign.
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The Democratic nominee's team thinks Trump is most insecure about his "intelligence, his net worth and his image as a successful businessman," the Times reported.
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I watched videos of a xenophobic New York City socialite, whose greatest accomplishment was playing a successful businessman on reality television, launch a Presidential bid.
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To be a successful businessman in a systemically corrupt regime and to be a close supporter of the regime are one and the same thing.
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A prosecutor and successful businessman who was elected to the state Senate in 2016, Timmons loaned his campaign $918,000 and spent more than $1 million total.
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Along the way he became one of the sport's best players and a successful businessman, philanthropist, trailblazing advertising spokesman, talented golf course designer and experienced aviator.
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Erlij, 48, was a successful businessman who lived near Rosario, Argentina, known for his generosity and dedication to his family, work, and friends, La Nacion reported.
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If he ran, he'd likely bill himself as a Trump 2.0 -- a successful businessman bringing the lessons he's learned in the private sector to public office.
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Trump had assembled a pile of meat, wines, a pyramid of bottled water, and one magazine to make a point that he is a successful businessman.
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Oesterlund's offshore trust was not an elaborate scheme to defeat the settlement, the lawyers argued, but the normal estate planning of a wealthy and successful businessman.
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How he did it"My father had been a very successful businessman and had joined other people in investing in commercial-real-estate opportunities," he said.
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The successful businessman and racial justice advocate Albro Lyons had deep roots in the churches and voluntary associations that championed racial justice in 21th-century Manhattan.
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"The only thing that made me into a successful businessman is my teaching background," Ma said Thursday, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Tianjin, China.
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If I were a supporter, I'd have just a few questions to which I'd like answers: As a successful businessman, how many jobs have you created?
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" James, 37, a successful businessman and eight-year combat veteran of the Iraq War, said he understands national security "from a strategic to a tactical level.
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The positive effect of having a successful businessman in the Oval Office has been clear to anyone who paid even passing attention to the stock market.
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Still, being a successful businessman may not be what voters are looking for as an alternative to Trump, especially as the party veers toward a progressive platform.
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He told Esquire magazine in a 1991 interview that getting bad press is no obstacle to the successful businessman, provided he meets certain criteria in other areas.
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A lawyer and successful businessman, he is a man of no very fervent views, but likes enterprise, is socially liberal and leans, like many Australians, towards republicanism.
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" The government objected, arguing that Mr. Ng, 000, was trying "to put off prison as long as possible on the ground that he is a successful businessman.
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I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star..... Shaub, who clashed with the president over his business interests, resigned from his government post last year.
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He's an enormously successful businessman and renowned philanthropist who has given a great deal of money to fight climate change, support gun control and revitalize America's infrastructure.
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If someone claiming to be a successful businessman, able to create jobs and "Make America Great" isn't supported by his peers, then just how successful could he be?
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While Hillary Clinton's inability to relate with average Americans hurt her during the campaign, Trump's gold-laden, glitzy lifestyle only added to the persona of a successful businessman.
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The plan, devised by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and successful businessman-turned Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, comes just as Israel's public transportation options are expanding across the country.
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Think about the fact that Schwartz, a smart adult and successful businessman, acknowledged his problem yet still struggled to kick the habit of looking at his device constantly.
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One of Mr. Trump's largest expenses is air travel, but his luxury jets have helped market his brand as a successful businessman though the fleet itself is aging.
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Many said they put him there because he stood against political correctness and was a successful businessman and because they liked what he said about our trade policies.
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For years now, sober pundits have made the case that someone like Schultz—a successful businessman who is fiscally conservative and socially liberal—should enter the political arena.
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The optics are not good for Trump, who was elected as a successful businessman who would know how to run our national economy like a well-oiled machine.
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President Trump is a successful businessman who understands the severe impacts that the policies of politicians past have had on working class families in the American Rust Belt.
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Whether or not the whaling operation is making money (the company has held investments in other businesses like mainstream commercial fishing), Mr. Loftsson is clearly a successful businessman.
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He said it was unfair for the government to kick out a 43-year-old coffee farmer who had built a life as a successful businessman in Hawaii.
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I am a successful businessman, but when I found myself alone with a gorgeous stranger at a friend's firm and started kissing and grabbing her, I was arrested.
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"Choi has been portrayed as a poster child of a successful businessman ... I am dejected and angered by this scandal," said one Samsung employee who declined to be identified.
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Geraldo Alckmin, former Sao Paulo governor, publicly tried to court Josue Gomes, who apart from being a successful businessman is also the son of former Vice President Jose Alencar.
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The president is not only a former reality-show star, but one whose fame is based more on performance than reality—on the idea that he's a successful businessman.
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He's a successful businessman who will take his "Conjoined Triangles of Success" and turn Pied Piper into a smooth-running operation that will offer a massive return on investment.
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Reporting on Mr. Trump's financial past by Times reporters, including David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner has already undermined the president's confected image as a hugely successful businessman.
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Bankruptcy followed bankruptcy, but because Trump's family money was protected by corporate structures, he maintained his high-profile lifestyle and kept on promoting himself as a super-successful businessman.
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Ricketts, a successful businessman and co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, emerged as a prominent booster for President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign after initially supporting Wisconsin Gov.
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Bloomberg, a successful businessman and founder of Bloomberg L.P., is not in the New Hampshire primary, but he is the Democratic candidate that might be most palatable to markets.
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So much value was placed on the image of the successful businessman, that we have forgotten about our roots, about the people who form the foundation of our success.
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Six months on, Branson learnt that a friend, whom he described as a very successful businessman in the United States, had been called by a conman posing as him.
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I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star..... A medical case against Trump also redirects us from the fairer, more objective categories we can use to judge him.
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Trump's reliance on his own businesses has been a campaign strategy in and of itself: He uses them to brand himself as a successful businessman and all-around rich person.
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"As my top economic advisor, Gary Cohn is going to put his talents as a highly successful businessman to work for the American people," Trump said in a news release.
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"As a first-generation American born in Kearney, Nebraska, Pete exceeded all of his expectations in becoming a successful businessman, statesman and philanthropist," the Peterson family said in a statement.
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His firsthand experience as a successful businessman helps to guide his decisions as president, and he will continue to seek opinions of other job creators while crafting an economic agenda.
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Mr. Trump has responded to charges that he sought to profit from the recession by claiming that he was doing what he was supposed to do as a successful businessman.
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"As my top economic adviser, Gary Cohn is going to put his talents as a highly successful businessman to work for the American people," Mr. Trump said in a statement.
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"Snoop is not only a rap legend, but also a successful businessman, with a genuine interest in tech, retail and e-commerce," Klarna Chief Executive Sebastian Siemiatkowski said in a statement.
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But under the circumstances, he really wants to hear Trump defend his basic pitch — that as a successful businessman, he'll be able to run the country better than a traditional politician.
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Hichilema said he had more faith in new South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, a successful businessman who came to power in February after Zuma was forced out by his own party.
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Judge Stephen Reinhardt said it isn't fair or just for the government to kick out a 43-year-old coffee farmer who built a life as a successful businessman in Hawaii.
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Trump wasn't a former reality TV star, a failed businessman who became an actor who played a successful businessman on a bad TV show—he was a current reality TV star.
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As the CEO of Landry's, a privately owned hospitality corporation with over 600 properties, and owner of the NBA's Houston Rockets, it is fair to say Fertitta is a successful businessman.
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Lee Iacocca, a truly successful businessman by any standard, declined to run for the highest office, because he knew that there was a fundamental difference between big business and big government.
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But Andrew Ross Sorkin still has a big question that wasn't answered in last night's debate: Donald J. Trump has tried to project himself as a successful businessman throughout his campaign.
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As a successful businessman and longtime conservative donor, he's argued that he'd be best positioned to advance Republican priorities in a state that went for Trump by 20 points in 2016.
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His support could help the argument by Mr. Bloomberg that, as a successful businessman himself, he is uniquely qualified to take on Mr. Trump and become the next commander in chief.
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The argument he would be making is not that a successful businessman can't run the country but that Trump is neither all that successful nor all that much of a businessman.
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What we know: Barrack is a successful businessman who oversaw Trump's inaugural committee and has significant real estate dealings in the Gulf region, including with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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He's even being lauded by some of the same outlets wrongly characterizing his position on sanctions as a "successful businessman" with a "strong character" who will "command respect" in his new position.
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He went on to become an administrator for the German Tennis Federation and a successful businessman, until he visited Cairo in 1976 and his life was abruptly ended in a motoring accident.
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"You know, he's a brilliant, successful businessman who can bring the kind of prosperity to America today that he brought to Atlantic City, is that your point?" he asked the audience sarcastically.
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Among them, a depressed woman (Chrissy Metz) struggling with her weight; a sitcom actor (Justin Hartley) disillusioned with his career; and a successful businessman (Sterling K. Brown) searching for his biological father.
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In 21959 he cast him in "Follies" as Benjamin Stone, a successful businessman who wonders, in the song "The Road You Didn't Take," if he has made the right choices in life.
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Opinion Columnist Unlike Donald Trump, the former Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz is a genuinely successful businessman who built a company that's become part of the daily lives of people across America.
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Democrats totally failed to tear down the gilded television image of Donald Trump, successful businessman and tycoon, in their 2016 efforts to explain to voters that he'd actually been just mediocre at business.
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O'Neal is now known as a successful businessman and investor and recommends saving and investing 75 percent of your earnings for retirement and long-term goals, and living off the remaining 25 percent.
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The Clinton camp believes that Mr. Trump is most insecure about his intelligence, his net worth and his image as a successful businessman, and those are the areas they are working with Mrs.
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" — SETH MEYERS "Of course, Trump was never a successful businessman — he just played one on TV. Expecting Donald Trump to exhibit business acumen is like expecting George Clooney to do an arterial bypass.
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The two had never met before, but that didn't stop Grizot, a former French national team golfer and successful businessman, from bragging that he was going to bring the Ryder Cup to Paris.
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Clinton's campaign also released a video Wednesday morning highlighting Trump's failures in the city, evidence her campaign sees Trump's travails in the city as a way to discredit his reputation as a successful businessman.
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"Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary is a successful businessman and financier, but like most people, he's made his fair share of mistakes, including gambling away his money in his early 20s in Las Vegas.
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My expectations were modest—someone not still living at his parents' house, a successful businessman or doctor who would respect my independence and intelligence while he held the fort down like a traditional gentleman.
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The allegations that Doug and Randy Ford conspired to screw their sister-in-law, niece, and nephew out of millions of dollars are certainly not great for a politician campaigning on being a successful businessman.
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A successful businessman, he won the New York Republican nomination for governor in an upset in 2010 despite behavior that included sending racist and pornographic images to an extended email list of friends and reporters.
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"When someone runs for president and says their primary qualification for being president is because they claim to be a successful businessman, then it's only fair to ask how did you become successful?" she said.
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In present day, I like to think of this before and after picture of Jeff Bezos as a good example of the arc of a successful businessman or woman, one that is timeless and perennial.
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" Donald Trump May Be One of the Biggest Losers in America—The "VERY successful businessman" only paid income tax twice between 103 and 210—and lost more money than "nearly any other individual American taxpayer.
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While some blithely suggest that Tillerson is a foreign policy rookie, the successful businessman has been at the helm of a global organization whose revenues and resources eclipse the gross domestic product of most nations.
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Donald Trump goes on, and on, and on, about being a successful businessman, but he filed business bankruptcies six times, always to protect his own money and stick his investors and contractors with the bill.
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During the trip, they rode along with "Jungle" Ronnie Brunswick—an ex-rebel leader who waged a violent civil war but is now a successful businessman with miles of gold mining land to his name.
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"To disqualify him, you have to deconstruct that story" that he is a successful businessman, said David Brock, who runs Correct the Record, a "super PAC" that coordinates with the campaign to defend Mrs. Clinton.
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The best case for President Trump has always been that he's a successful businessman, who understands the art of dealmaking and could therefore negotiate congressional horse-trading and international negotiations without doing too much damage.
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It's Philip who could use the management training, a point brought home when his son offers to hook him up with a friend's father who's also had "some failures" but is now a successful businessman.
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Where Trump comes across to his supporters as a hugely successful businessman who can and will tell anyone in the country (or the world!) exactly what he thinks of them, Bevin reads more humorless scold.
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And his camp believes that Bloomberg's history as a longtime philanthropist, successful businessman, media mogul and major financier of the climate change and gun control movements will play well with voters and yield grassroots support.
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And despite the plethora of excellent reporting on this topic, many voters seem to be unaware of his troubling history here, and may view him primarily as a successful businessman who says some offensive things.
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Or, by the optics, a successful businessman tapping into your frustration with your frozen or declining wages, increased work hours, crummy or non-existent healthcare, and general cynicism toward the politicians who are supposedly representing you.
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By running a campaign that rests in large part on his claims of being a successful businessman, and, to a lesser degree, a generous donor to charitable causes, Mr. Trump has put these matters in play.
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But everyone knows that he is a rich and successful businessman, in part because he talks about it constantly and in part because a large element of his business consists of sticking his name on things.
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The president, who was Mr. Mandela's first choice to be his successor but instead demurred for a time to become a hugely successful businessman, has not been idle since he replaced Mr. Zuma 15 months ago.
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" The office of Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney in Manhattan, objected, arguing that Mr. Ng was trying "to put off prison as long as possible on the ground that he is a successful businessman.
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In this four episode hour long series, the legendary baseball icon and mega-successful businessman, Alex Rodriguez, gives back by mentoring notables who have fallen on hard times and need help getting back on their feet.
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"Back in the Game," pairs major league baseball legend and successful businessman Alex Rodriguez with Joe Smith, a former NBA #1 pick whose lost most of the 60 million dollars he made in his long career.
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Mr Priebus, a plain-vanilla conservative, whose embrace of Mr Trump arguably did more to get him elected, reflects the pragmatism of the successful businessman Mr Obama claimed to have encountered in his meeting with Mr Trump.
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Based on the true story of Chris Gardner, in which Will Smith was nominated for an Oscar for, "The Pursuit of Happyness" follows Gardner's struggles with homelessness to successful businessman, investor, stockbroker, motivational speaker, author, and philanthropist.
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Mr. Trump's self-image as a successful businessman is important to him, and, though he has said publicly that he is relying more on his children to run the Trump Organization, he remains closely tied to it.
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By the time I met him in 2014 and conducted interview for my biography, "The Truth About Trump," the future president was more famous for playing a successful businessman on TV than being one in real life.
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System 1 thinking is quick and easy, but System 2 thinking — the kind required to truly understand whether Trump's successful businessman stereotype is true — takes a great deal of time and effort — and taxes our limited bandwidth.
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Ms. Ruax, whose fiancé, Alex Ghassan, was also killed in the fire, wrote on social media that she was inspired by how her father went from modest beginnings in a small village to become a successful businessman.
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Even after news outlets described the bankruptcies and a decade of losses totaling $1.1 billion, according to the New York Times, the majority of people responding to pollsters said they thought the President had been a successful businessman.
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Among other things, the move is intended to help Apple better understand China, its second-largest market... Donald Trump, widely known for playing a successful businessman on TV, has some pointed business advice for Amazon: beware the regulator.
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He shares his regrets, which include leaving the U.S. Navy and losing his bid for re-election, as well as his the lessons on success he learned as President, a successful businessman and a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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Volunteer has yet to hear from parents A successful businessman who did not want to be identified donated $20,000 worth of supplies, said Jose Colom, who has volunteered for days working outside in the parking lot accepting donations.
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Instead, once the successful businessman was out of the running, his backers would have decisively pushed one of the two finalists over the top and into the November election with an actual majority rather than a weak plurality.
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To say that a successful businessman is inherently capable of running a government is like saying that a squid — based on its admirable mastery of the world's oceans — would be an excellent judge in the Westminster Dog Show.
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In 1961, with backing from his middle brother, Richard, a successful businessman who also collected art, and who later became a political scientist and a professor at Swarthmore College, Mr. Rubin opened Galerie Lawrence in Paris in 19563.
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His mother has stayed behind in Tehran and his father, a successful businessman and ex-boxer of legendary machismo, drops dead of a heart attack on a squash court, leaving the teenager and his two younger brothers penniless.
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Now, in this four-episode series, former MLB superstar and mega-successful businessman, Alex Rodriguez, is ready to give back by mentoring athletes and entertainers who've fallen on hard times and need help getting back on their feet.
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Bloomberg, who built a multibillion-dollar business and ran New York as mayor for 11 years, is positioning himself as Trump&aposs opposite: a successful businessman with governing experience who sees himself as a unifier, not a divider.
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Shrem was a successful businessman with trade connections to Aleppo in Syria when ISIS came and kidnapped more than 50 members of his family from Iraq's Sinjar province, a handful of the thousands of Yazidis seized there in 2014.
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At around $100 per day including food and ski rentals, the holiday was far too expensive for most North Koreans to enjoy - even to a successful businessman like Kang, who ran a quasi-private clothing factory for Chinese clients.
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Trump argues that as a successful businessman and political outsider, he is the best person to take a new approach to rebuilding an economy that has sent too many jobs overseas and left many Americans struggling to find decent jobs.
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"As a very successful businessman with extraordinary talents, not only you made a great contribution to the growth of the US economy, but now as a strong leader, you have demonstrated your determination to lead the United States," Abe wrote.
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According to Philip Barlow, who directs religious studies at Utah State University, Mormons remain very proud of the political achievements of Mitt Romney, a follower of their faith who was Republican presidential candidate in 2012 and a very successful businessman.
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With Starbucks' Howard Schultz considering running as an independent and Michael Bloomberg deciding not to run, Hickenlooper could carve out his own niche as the successful businessman who turned to politics to bring order to the chaotic world of government.
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Branson — already a successful businessman, having formed Virgin Records some years earlier — was due to fly to the British Virgin Islands to be reunited with a "lovely lady" on his private Necker Island, when his American Airlines flight was suddenly cancelled.
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Once a successful businessman in Sri Lanka's lucrative sugar trade, the 63-year-old has rebuilt homes, taught vocational skills to young people and pushed them to take up sports - in short, he has helped breathe life back into the village.
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From executive producer Michael Strahan, "Back in the Game" pairs major league baseball legend and successful businessman Alex Rodriguez with Joe Smith, a former NBA #1 pick who's lost most of the 60 million dollars he made in his long career.
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Trump endorsed and campaigned with Braun, attending a rally in August and tweeting his support: "Will be going to Evansville, Indiana, tonight for a big crowd rally with Mike Braun, a very successful businessman who is campaigning to be Indiana's next U.S. Senator."
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He's an experienced financial markets practitioner and successful businessman, but he has no training in economics, and the job of running a central bank in the public interest is not closely related to the job of running an investment bank for profit.
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In addition to the financial rewards, the conclusion of the Trump University cases brings vindication to former students, mostly ordinary people across the country who felt they had been robbed of their savings by Mr. Trump, a successful businessman they respected and admired.
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"Well, it was a friend of mine who was a businessman -- a very successful businessman and a good person, and you know, Paul was not there very long," Trump said on Sharyl Attkisson's syndicated show "Full Measure," which will air in full on Sunday.
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"There is no doubt Rex Tillerson is a successful businessman and a very smart person," Murphy said, "but he has proven, many times, his willingness to put oil profits before national interests and handing him the keys of US foreign policy is a recipe for disaster."
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But it's worth noting that Warren Buffett, a far, far more successful businessman than Donald Trump will ever be, has never publicly attacked a federal judge, has given vast sums to charity, and has even disclosed his tax returns although he has never run for office.
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Ross Perot, who ran for the presidency as an independent in 1992, made a different part of the Trump pitch—the successful businessman who would stop the "giant sucking sound" of American jobs being hoovered up by Mexico, the billionaire promising to make competition go away.
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Now he wants us to believe that he is suddenly compassionate and will do everything to help the poor and disadvantaged, when in fact he did nothing in that regard while getting to be the very rich and successful businessman he constantly tells us he is.
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But Trump is perfectly capable of playing a successful businessman on TV. And so he becomes this character in the American mind, and it's that character that gives him the legitimacy to do things in domestic American politics and to propose himself as a presidential candidate.
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Taking place years after the original Karate Kid movie, Danny (the original hero) is a successful businessman owning multiple car dealerships, while the once-villainous Johnny is a burnout just living day to day until he reopens the Cobra Kai dojo and enrolls a few misfit kids.
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If president is not actually a successful businessman but the world's most famous con man, that seems like relevant information for voters to have going into his reelection campaign—and Democrats could help figure out the answer to that question by finally forcing him to release his tax returns.
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Hillary Clinton's campaign has seized on the news to try to drive home the idea that Trump only looks out for himself, while shafting the little guy, and that the core of his campaign message – that he's a hugely successful businessman who can fix America's problems – is bunk.
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ROBERT J. FIRESTONE, NEW YORK To the Editor: Looking at President Trump's proposed budget, with its deficit-busting spending goals following what he calls the largest tax cut in American history, one can see why someone who claims to be a successful businessman has filed for bankruptcy so many times.
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In his column "How Donald Trump turned the tax code into a giant tax shelter, " Stewart wrote that even if Trump was correct when he said that he only took advantage of what the law allows, the loss of a billion dollars undermines his claim of being an astute and successful businessman.
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Trump will be president in the same way he is a successful businessman: He will play one on TV. The ultimate source of his power has always been ratings, and a narrow defeat by Hillary Clinton will send his ratings through the roof, enabling him to proclaim his message more loudly than ever.
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While some of his actions may present more challenges to small businesses, Bloomberg, a successful businessman himself who has been significantly involved in programs supporting small businesses, such as the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Businesses initiative, would undoubtedly continue a positive disposition towards wealth creation and entrepreneurship should he win the White House.
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Before his fall, Mr. Richmond had been a successful businessman and a prominent civic participant: a human rights commissioner of New York City, president of the Urban League of New York, a New York State cultural official and a protector of Carnegie Hall when it faced the wrecking ball in the 1960s.
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His campaign has so far centered around advertisements casting him as a successful businessman and formidable challenger to President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE.
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Mr. Hanks says he just listened to the NPR show in which a former producer of "The Apprentice" admitted that the show made the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, which was falling apart and, as Mr. Hanks says, "stank," look glossy in an effort to sell the image of Trump, the successful businessman.
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Politics aside, the people of these Urban Communities agree on one fact: Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE is a successful businessman.
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The fact is, both men bring unique real-world experiences to their offices — Trump, as a decades-long successful businessman who has employed hundreds of thousands of people and Johnson, as a journalist, author and creative force who never has shied away from wielding cutting words as a rhetorical sword against ignorance, lies, power centers, failed policies or appeasement.
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But the third was a successful businessman named Su Bin, and he was based right here in North America, just a three-hour flight from the agents' offices in LA. Su, who in the West went by Stephen, owned an 80-employee Chinese aviation-technology firm called Lode-Tech and, according to The Globe and Mail, had a comfortable $2 million house in Richmond, British Columbia.
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Mr Cruz had the best line of the night when, in his closing statement, he said how wonderful it was that the Republican contest should feature the son of a bartender (Mr Rubio), the son of a mail-man (Mr Kasich), the son of a dishwasher (himself)—and the son of a millionaire property developer (the phrase he actually used for Mr Trump was "successful businessman").
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"We have a guy that lives next to me on my hall and he printed out 5,000 pamphlets and he's been passing them out all over campus, and they're campaign kind of things for why we shouldn't vote for Trump but why we should respect him as a person and a successful businessman," said Anthony Brausch, 19, a freshman, who is unsure if he could vote for Mr. Trump.
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"It goes to the heart of his argument that he is a successful businessman," said one figure in Trump's orbit, who added that the president was fortunate not to be facing former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergSunday shows - Trump's Epstein conspiracy theory retweet grabs spotlight Bloomberg: Next generation of Democrats needs to 'earn their spurs' Bloomberg: McConnell may allow gun reform vote to boost reelection chances MORE, a billionaire, in his reelection bid.
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