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The Donald, someone they would wave and smile at. Suddenly, it was a
different ball game, and it didn’t seem like much fun to me. One guy I had
been friendly with for years saw me at Le Cirque and for the first time in
my life called me Mr. Trump. He had always called me Donald. That was a

real heads-up.
A lot of successful businesspeople think they can apply their
management skills to politics, but I’ve noticed that only a select few, like
Michael Bloomberg and Jon Corzine, succeed. Most others lack the
temperament for it.
There’s a larger point here, beyond the obvious ones about not
confusing your talent for office politics with a gift for electoral politics.

Anyone with more than a little curiosity and ambition will at some point
be tempted to try a different challenge on new terrain. Take the risk, but
before you do, do everything you can to learn what you’re getting yourself
into, and be as sure as you can that you’ve got the right mind-set for the
job.

Avoid the Handshake Whenever Possible
Some business executives believe in a firm handshake. I believe inno
handshake. It is a terrible practice. So often, I see someone who is
obviously sick, with a bad cold or the flu, who approaches me and says,
Mr. Trump, I would like to shake your hand. It’s a medical fact that this is
how germs are spread. I wish we could follow the Japanese custom of
bowing instead.

The worst is having to shake hands during a meal. On one occasion, a
man walked out of the restaurant’s bathroom, jiggling his hands as though
they were still wet and he hadn’t used a towel. He spotted me, walked over
to my table, and said, Mr. Trump, you’re the greatest. Would you please
shake my hand?

I knew that if I didn’t shake his hand, he’d be saying terrible things
about me for thirty years. I also knew that if I agreed, my own hands
would be loaded with germs or whatever the hell he’d carried out of the
bathroom. I had a choice.
In this case, I decided to shake hands, because I was a little overweight
at the time and knew that if I shook his hand I wouldn’t eat my meal—and
that would be a good thing.