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172 I CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Donald's Response

My Father's Influence '

My legacy from my father was embodied in the saying, "To whom
much is given, much is expected." I drive myself because I must.
Today is a very beautiful day in May, and I'm in my jet on the way
to Canouan Island in the Grenadines, not far from St. Barts. I have a
resort development there that includes a golf course and villas, and
this is one fantastic destination point, provided you like paradise. I'm
going to visit to check it out for a couple of days, and this quiet time
while flying is one part of traveling that I like to take advantage of.
However, Robert called me just before I left and asked me this
question:
"Donald, what would you do if everything was taken away from
you?"
He mentioned that Henry Ford said he'd make it all back in five
years, and that Picasso would keep on painting, and so on. I've
already been through one reversal that could have been a total
wipeout and difficult to recover from. But I came back to be far more
successful than I was before, so I can safely say I'd just keep at it,
which is what I did.
But then I got to thinking about my father, Fred Trump, who had
a wipeout in his life at an early age: His father died when my father
was 11 years old, which left him as the man of the house with a
mother and two siblings to care for and _l<i ~~~:
watch out for. It wasthe defining moment
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in my father's life. Heimmediately began
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taking odd jobs - shining shoes,
delivering for a fruit market, hauling what you 're doing.
lumber on a construction site. He
- Fred Trump
graduated from high school, but couldn't

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