Champion Challenge from Donald J. Trump

Why do I think of myself as a Champion? These are indeed tough times. Even more so when you are a Mom to 2 little ones. I have carved out several businesses for myself. All are based on passionate interests of mine. I own a decorating business, and organize 3 different networking groups: WE-WIN for entrepreneurial women, MomsTown for Moms working and balancing work from home and a fitness group for women. All these companies are being marketed online by selling memberships, products, e-books, tips. When I am contracted for retail merchandising jobs, I subcontract to create jobs for others (while keeping a portion of the profits for myself!) It is truly a win win situation.
I refuse to believe in the doom and gloom thinking being shoved our way. My challenges are to educate myself to learn how to do all of the above in the best and most efficient way. Oh and I am home to take my kids to school, pick them up, make dinner, bath and story every night. I show my kids that yes, you can do it all.
Yes, life is all about taking all you can and making the very best of it!
Thank you Donald and Ivanka Trump, for being my inspiration.

I think I diserve this book because I'm adventurous and I like new chalenges. To be an entrepeneur is a big challenge to me because I'm on my own persuing this ideal, I studied to be teacher at primary school but now I'm preparing myself to make a turn of 180º in my way of thinking the future. I want to be the owner of my future, and to be an investor is the best way if we manage well the risk envolved.
I live in small country of europe, in Portugal, and I'm studying the best examples of enterpreneurship, including Mr. Trump. America always will be an example of freedom and information.
Finally, i think this time I was in the top, because I was the first, or one of the first persons reading this offer!
Best Regards.

Frederico

Mr. Trump,

First, let me thank you for the opportunity to receive a complimentary, signed copy of your new book, Think Like A Champion.

I feel that I would benefit greatly from a copy of your book as I am in the exciting phase of my life where I will soon be finished school and entering the "real world" of full-time employment and living on my own. I am in the process of gathering all the skills and knowledge, outside of my formal academic training, I can so that once I make the big step I am ahead of the game. Being able to gain knowledge and advice from such an experienced and successful person such as yourself would benefit me greatly, and in return, benefit all those who I interact with.

I look forward to receiving a copy of your book and, more importantly, applying the information so that I may achieve tremendous success.

Thank you Mr. Trump

I started Thinking Like a Champion last year when I took a huge risk - opening my own civil engineering consulting company at the age of 33 in the midst of the worst land development economy in decades. Thus far, I have managed to grow the business, get appointed to influential positions on government committees and assist others during troubling times.

Mr. Trump, I too believe in the value of education and have furthered my knowledge through real estate courses, seminars and books as well as books that focus specifically on what Robert Kiyosaki calls 'Financial IQ'. In the last year, I've found a partner with which to flip a few houses to get some cashflow (certainly not the ultimate end of my real estate investing), quit working for someone else and started my own business as an insurance broker and am, as I type this, waiting to close on an investment property for myself. You are a very wise not only with investments but your attitude as well and I would very much appreciate the opportunity to continue to learn from your wisdom through your new book. Thank you for your consideration.

A champion is one who has repeatedly come out first among group in challenges or in a competitiion. A champion is someone who has also succeeded in achieving goals or other tests.one who is outstandingly skilled in his or her field. For example,i will call myself a champion because i started a Leadership Program some years ago, i just completed the program January these year, and i happen to be the first person and i was giving an award to that effect, that shows that am a champion and also a leader. Because i have break all barriers and obstacles to reach where i am today. So, i have set an example and others will follow. That is who a champion is, setting examples for others to follow.

Dear mr. Donald,
Thank You for the Challenge! It has been very inspiring to read Your Blog, which I have done from Finland Europe for some 2 years now. I have received my first sales adwises from USA at 1980´s from MarkVictor Hansen (I listen his tapes Vizualising is Realising), but Your words have started to live in my mouth and head - so I am living allready like champion in my mind. Your words truely works. I have been sceptic to by Your books, but yunger brother Erno visited Your Trum Towers and he bought me a souvenier Trump 101 marketing and I had to admit that the book is maid professional way.

About the Challenge - Yes it exist strongly here also. At the moment, in my home town, the Football Club AC Oulu is strugling with the empty cashbox and the team is going for the Premier Legue of Finland at this Year. I started a AC Oulu Ltd. last year as a starting managing director. Now the Ltd has a legal right from the Finnish Finance Control Office to sell 2,5MEur worth of stocks and the ecomony is sweeping strongly here also - or the business people have lost their focus to buy stocks to sport of ours. I am dreaming + challenging my mind to get snowball rolling. I have quit my "sure daily work" yesterday & I´m planning to start living the Challenge right now - the time is now - next week i will open a salesoffice over the internet at http://www.parhaattapahtumat.fi (owner is my friend) and I will start to roll the Challenge (take a part off it - You get stocks) thrue the internet to speed up the good thing. i have also called some friends & hotel owner to open a Event at name GoodStock 2009 which will be the musical evening to have fun & buy stocks & take a part of the Legends Gomeback (Fenix will rise). To do this and much more I have started to Challenge my heart for Good. I will lead the way - and thanks to You Donald, You have been my secret inspire in days when my friends did not take You very respectly. I want You to know that You have been my mind business Guru, which have escaled for the good thing. I only have sort period time, the stock sale will be closed 31.07.2009, so this is all for now, but I hope that this Challenge Letter of mine will create a snowball rolling. Our Football Club internet address is http://www.acoulu.fi and after this Challenge we will start a new Challenge to Build a own Areena / Stadium with roof like is build in Oslo Norway (with 30 MEur). Noboddy is believing me on this subject, but I have sell holidayownership over 30MEur sofar during 1988-1996 at http://www.katinkulta.fi which is affiliate RCI resort like Marriot. I hope to get these Challenges done - God help me on this! To mr. Donald and to his "friends".

What can I say I'm 24 just recently started a family and am doing well. When I was 15 I had the opportunity to play varsity football or start working and earn a living. My family was always in need for money and I saw my parents struggling all the time when I was young. Since that time I always strived to perfection, I didn't want to end up like them. From 18 on I started managing wireless stores, always being the youngest to do so. At 21 I partnered up with two other individuals to start an auto transport brokerage which with in one year got up to 1M in gross sales. Because of the hard economic times and the hike in gas prices in early 2008 we had to shut the doors. I then jumped into the car business where I'm head of the Internet department for Chevy and Cadillac in Los Angeles. In fact a couple weeks ago we delivered in Escalade Platium editon to your friend Mr. Ruffin at his new casino Treasure Island, so they could ad to there fleet of limos. I've always been a leader and strived to be the best. I intend on buying your book, even if I don't get an autographed copy, which would be nice. I've always watched the apprentice from day 1, and I even own some Trump ties, which of course I always get complemented on. IN any event keep up the good work, and hopefully you'll continue to motivate people abroad.

My name is Victor, 20 years old and I have more or less read all your books up to this point. You are a big inspiration to me and I read as much as I can, especially your books or someone else with similar champion spirit, Schwarzenegger who also is a huge inspiration. In these tough times I try to educate myself as much as I can to be able to take charge of the opportunities to come. Right now im studying double courses, 200% in business school and only have one year left. I would very much appreciate to receive your book, which will help keep me even more motivated.

Thanks in Advance
Victor.

Donald Trump my inspiration,my teacher my mentor.I like your work!
I am determined,focused, serious because of you.and i am dertermined to keep it that way.There is no stoping me!!.,.I am still making my way to the top first with my coming business studies.
Thank you Mr Donald Trump.

Mr Trump,

Just like you I have faced adversity in my life and continue to while batteling illness now. I batteled racisim while growing up and still managed to keep a positive attitude and make a pretty good living in some major industries. I have been fired by relatives, and others for sharing my feelings and my convictions and have no regrets ! I have a wonderful son whom i help raise from here in alaska while he is in illinois. I instill how important it is to have good values and work habits and formost help others less fortunate than yourself no matter what situation you are in. I have been diagnosed with 2 major illnesses that there is no cure for, plus had 2 life threatening blood clots in the last 3 years. I continue to help friends in need, and work when i can in the social work field here in alaska with kids in need. I get no greater thrill than to see a child who is aflicted with some mental illness smile and succeed despite the challenges and it keeps me positive about my problems! I started going back to college as well to get my BA in social work and human services, and while i have taken a semester off due to illness, i will be going back in the fall. I consider myself a champion because despite feeling terrible and on disability leave now i continue to try to help others less fortunate than myself and I will till the good lord takes me. There is alot of negative things in society these days but i feel a new day is dawning where all people will go out to help others and find ways to make this an even greater country, I know i will continue to do my part from Alaska and will continue to admire what you do from NY. God Bless everyone !

When I see an opportunity I grab it. Just as I have grabbed this one of being able to express my reasons of why I am a champion. I have an uncanny ability to visualize future trends and opportunities. I am a retired civil servant and started doing free-lance, signing agent work for various title companies that were engaged in the sub-prime mortgage business. That was the summer of 2004. I read over several of the proposed contracts and just said "God help us all". I stayed in that business for approximately two months. I heard the train coming and warned others. My instincts and analytical skills proved me right.
I'm not afraid of being "the first" of a particular idea nor am I afraid of being out there alone if I feel strongly enough and have complete confidence in an idea or project. I'm not afraid of going against the grain. I have the ability of overcome adversity. Retiring from the Federal Government because of disability,surviving Hurricane Ivan, Hurricane Katrina and a host of downfalls in my personal life....I'm still standing. Now I am looking at new opportunities. Opportunities for the here and now, tomorrow, five years from now and beyond.

Donald Trump my inspiration,my teacher and mentor.
determined,focusd and serious not forgeting "Smart"is who i am because of you!
I am making my way to the top first with my coming business studies.
Thank you Mr Donald Trump.

Hi, you should send me your new book because I love reading and learning about business. Your books teach great lessons and I value the information you give people. Thinking like a champion is knowing that winning doesn't matter. You have to play fair. To be successful you have to work hard, get along, work as a team, and having knowledge. Your book will help me learn more about thinking like a champion and thats why I think you should send me your book.

Hi Mr. Trump,

I never viewed myself as a business person until recently. I started my videography business at the age of 23 as a creative-minded person with some business skills. Eight years later, I have learned the value of business teachings and have become a strong marketing person within my business. Our business is growing in these tough economic times, due mostly to what I have learned from individuals like yourself. I became interested in the Apprentice after seeing Amy Henry speak at a local event and am currently reading a copy of "Why I want you...." that I received at a Robert Kiyosaki event. I have been tremendously inspired by your teachings in this book and am looking forward to reading your newest book. I also look forward to one day competing in an Apprentice show where regular people like myself can go head to head with celebrities like Joan Rivers and Piers Morgan.

Many thanks to you & your team for providing many opportunities to grow in the new world of Social Media. I have thoroughly enjoyed your and Josef Katz blog posts and the ever growing networks on Facebook & Twitter.

Darcie King
E Video Productions
http://www.evideoproductions.net

I know I'm a Champion because against all odds of people telling me I wasn't gonna succeed in business and my own family that in my numerous business ventures have left me without support, I have continued forward pushing my limits. I come from an economic low class family here in Puerto Rico, and since a little what my parents told me was that money was bad. I have fight to go up in businesses and I have lost thousands of dollars but that didn't stop me from keep moving forward. To this day I can tell you without regrets were I am, I'm not economically fine, and if someone checks how much i'm wining right now they will just not believe it. But with that conditions and in the middle of buying a business, already some banks have told me they would not lend me the money

I know I am a champion because I never give up, I don’t care how many time I am going to fall I don’t care how many scares I am going to get on my way up there…I know I will get there no matter what. For me it’s not a race, it’s a challenge and I love it!!!!!!!! It doesn’t matter if it will take me 2 years or 20 years the goal is to get there and look back and see what you have achieved. I have the fire, the passion, the desire and of course the love to get what I want. I wasn’t born a quitter and I won’t die quitting either.



Samara Hayek

I know I'm a Champion because against all odds of people telling me I wasn't gonna succeed in business and my own family that in my numerous business ventures have left me without support, I have continued forward pushing my limits. I come from an economic low class family here in Puerto Rico, and since a little what my parents told me was that money was bad. I have fight to go up in businesses and I have lost thousands of dollars but that didn't stop me from keep moving forward. To this day I can tell you without regrets were I am, I'm not economically fine, and if someone checks how much i'm wining right now they will just not believe it. But with that conditions and in the middle of buying a business, already some banks have told me they would not lend me the money, but you know when I want something I will get it, and I know this business is for me. I have learned a lot from all of my mistakes, and of course I have learned a lot from you Mr. Trump. I have read your books and even asisted to a weekend seminar. So why I am a Champion? I am a Champion because I'll never give up until I succeed!

I would like a copy of the book to help me overcome the challenges that I face in my professional career. I am a part of the management team at my current place of employment. However, due in part to the economy, there are currently no opportunities for advancement. I continue to go to school part-time, to increase my marketability; however I struggle with the challenge of doing my best work with no hope, in the near future, of any type forward movement career-wise.

I've never read one of your books. I live in a small town in a rural area, can you tell me how I can succeed in a place where everybody knows your name, not as a realtor,but as a mom?

Mr. Donald J. Trump,

I am a champion simply because even though this has been undoubtedly the worst year of my life (and i just turned 40 four days ago) I am alive, kicking and not going down without a fight.

I know that you as well have seen diffiicult times and persevered as MANY other great people have.

Here is SOME of what I persevered this last year:

I was plauged by a chronic injury at work. While others slid and took "Light Duty" assigments I worked injured. Honestly I was not as effective as others working hurt- but I was a MILLION times more effective then others that refused to work and make the rest of the crew carry their extra uncompleted work.

After doing that for month after month my injury would not heal so when the team leader decided to yell at me for giving an honest effort while others did not work at all I decided that I have better places to be then working for someone that does not value an employee with heart.

I decided to turn my part time business into full time, unfortunately just as the economy started to swirl the toilet bowl and I shortly ran out of resources.

All the while this is going on my ex-wife (who hadn't worked in years) decided to trash me in court for more child support, even getting my 17 year old son to lie and accuse me of things in court, whch are untrue.

I know you well enough that it goes against your philosophy to NOT have crushed her back and made her pay for that deception and underhandedness (Think BIG and Kick Ass- I know because I read AND listened to the audio book). I feel as if I did that I may win, for now, but my son would pay as well- getting caught in the crossfire. As a parent that actually cares, and is not using my child as a pawn in life, I sucked it up. It is only a year and my son is worth it.

My business has not been even remotely as successful as I want it to be- for many reasons. However I am the Captain of that ship so I am ultimately responsible.

I am currently homeless, and staying here and there with friends (using their internet to post this).

I already bought "Think Like a Champion" and have started reading it. Some people would argue that that is a horrible decision for a 'homeless" person to go out and buy a $25 book- maybe for some people that is true, not for me. I value my mind, my education and the ability to be innspired MUCH more.

You are an inspirational person for me Donald. So if you pick me I would ask one favor. An autographed wallet sized photo of you (I know it sounds wierd for some folks out there), so I have portable inspiration.

Am I rich? Not yet.
Am I a champion of business? Not yet.
Did I have a disastrous year? Yes.
Am I letting that stop me? Not even close.
Am I surviving despite difficulties? Yes.
Is it fun or enjoyable? Not even close.
Am I a Champion? Some people, maybe even many, would say no by my current condition.

But I say I don't care what other's think. Besides that, everybody loves an underdog.

From one Surviving Champion to another Great Champion- have an INCREDIBLE DAY Donald!

Hi Mr. Trump, I would like to say that I read your blog all the time and hope you continue the good work! As for why I'd like to receive a signed copy of tyour new book, there are a couple of reasons. The first is that you issued a challenge and I'm the first person to post even though its been an hour since your new article came online. Leaders take initiative and upon reading your challenge I immediately registered on this website to post the first comment. The second is I'm a Finance student at California State University Sacramento (graduating Fall of 2010) and I'm planning on starting a business this summer after the spring semester is over. I love reading your books and they provide me with plenty of motivation and the think big mindset needed to have a shot at being successful. A signed copy of your new book would make me absolutely ecstatic!

-Brad Butler

I know I am a champion as I have come from a hard-working, rarely miss work upbringing (mostly learned from my father) and have carried it onto my adult life. I was stuck in the midwest and wanted to make a change in my life. I moved from Nebraska to Arizona and have been here since. (14 years). I committ myself to being to work on time each day even with an hour one-way drive to work to work for corporate America. I'm a committed family man to my wife and my children. I am just now starting to look around to see my other options that are available to me for betterment of myself and my family and at age 43 I don't doubt that If I put my mind to it that there isn't anything that I can't accomplish.

Mr. Trump,
In the early 90's I was a single mom with (3) kids-- working 2 and 3 jobs at a time to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads. I have always been a fan of repeating positive affirmations, working on changing your reality, reading books on how to succeed, etc... I have been a fan of "the Apprentice" since it started and consequently a fan of YOU!
Today I am a real-estate developer with my husband and have a net worth in the double digit-millions... nothing like you, but we're moving onward and upward.. I have been able to send my children back to college and my life is FANTASTIC! I am currently reading your book "Think Big and Kick Ass".... You are an inspiration to many... I would Looove to have a signed copy of your book!
Joy, Riches,Success,
Becky Lozner

I am a champion because I deeply care about humanity and life. I am a champion because my worth as a human being comes not from my emotions, thoughts or deeds, but rather, it comes from the fact that I exist, and I can breathe today. I am a champion because I believe in my right to exist, and therefore, in my right to deserve the best in my life. I am a champion because I understand the value of time, one heart beat at a time, and I understand that time is not money, but time is life, and once it's gone, life is gone forever. I am a champion because I feel the presence of infinite intelligence guiding me through the experiences we attribute to life and consciousness. I am a champion because I understand that human perception is limited in its form, and human matters, and other concepts are so insignificant relative to the outer vastness of the universe.

I am a champion because I believe in myself, and I believe in the power of integrity and truth. I am a champion because I believe I am unique, and I can contribute to our world and humanity far more than I can currently conceptualize. I am a champion because I believe in relationships with other members of our species and the meaning they create in human life, ask an old person who is dying alone. I believe I am a champion because I wake up every day, no matter how I feel, I make a solid decision to search for inner strength that is in me, and to bring out the best that is in others.

I am a champion because I believe that there are unlimited opportunities around us at any given moment, and that we can choose to be conscious about them and therefore, notice them. I am a champion because I am consistently inquiry into the best minds of human times, and synthesize their ideas to create value in an innovative way. I am a champion because I know no matter what twists and turns life takes, I will choose to learn from them, and keep on keeping on. I am a champion because I believe in collaborative achievement and team work. I am a champion because I don't just go through life, I grow through it. I am a champion because I can overcome any obstacle on the way to achieving my vision.

I am a champion because I am the first one to leave a comment here. I am also a champion because even if I don't get the book signed by Mr. Trump, I still did a great present to myself because I thought and wrote about this, thus reinforcing my beliefs and organizing my ideas supportive of the champion that is in me. And finally, I am a champion because when I look deeply into the night sky and observe the stars, I get a sense of oneness and a knowing that the World will keep spinning.

So thank you for this opportunity Mr. Trump, your thought has already impacted me.

Always your learner,

~ Stephan (23 years, student)

Dear Mister Trump,
Hello, I am an Italoamerican born in NY living in Belgium. I study law at the University of Liège. I choose law because I wanted to study a discipline that will give me a chance to work in varied areas later on, but I realize more and more that I really enjoy economics and fields dealing with business and will like to end up in there.
I succeeded all my law courses (that I enjoyed even though it is not my favorite), but I failed these two last years (I didn't have the good study method, I did not know where I was, what I really wanted, I did not understand the world around me very well, I was not mature enough) because of the other courses in the program. I never failed something that important before so I was very discouraged after that.
I read a book called: "Think and Grow rich" written by Napoleon Hill that I found out about not too long ago and it is changing my life. I have a totally different vision of the world; I see that in life you got to deserve to obtain, nothing comes easy, the best happens with hard work. I am much more mature and motivated now. I am having a better knowledge of the world around me, I understand better that failures happen to everyone and the important is to understand them and change what went wrong to get better. Every big success starts with a big failure in most cases (as it is said by N.H.). I think that a champion (if we compare with an athlete, with a boxer more specifically) is not someone that never fell but it is somebody that can get back up on his feet when he fell and do the best. That is why I think that I am a champion (I really work hard, always trying to do the best I can to not have regrets afterwards and to be proud of myself and what I accomplished). I really think that reading your book will bring me a lot more to get even better!

Since a few years, I have watched a few episodes of "The Apprentice" (the episodes that pass on the Belgian cable). I think that the show is very useful, I learn a lot with it and it is motivating. I have wanted to read your books for a little while now, but I have not gone back to the USA yet, so I could not buy them. I just saw the advertise to participate to this so I figured out "I do it, I have nothing to lose". I really want to read: "Think like a billionaire", "Think Big", and "Think like a Champion" (since I saw you talking about it on "Larry King Live").

Ever since I arrived in Belgium, life was not always easy, but my family and I arrived to deal with it and we are doing better and better except a little failure once on a while, but as my father says:"Live and learn" or as my grandmother tells me: "We see a good horse on a long run". It was nice writing this message. Well I hope to get one of the copies (but we are so many on Earth that I doubt it); at least I hope you will enjoy reading my message. Sincerely yours, Best regards.
Salvatore.

Dear Mr.Trump,

Selwyn Champion once said, "To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one". In the spirit of Mr.Champion's words I hope to receive an copy of your book in order to come in the acquaintance of the mindset and skills which have made you one of the most thought-off, established, renowned and polemical entrepreneurs on the globe. With the hope of one day returning to your book in order to, "...meet an old [friend]..." which has accompanied me on my successful entrepreneur endeavour ahead of me.

Best regards

Robin Tim Weis

Warm Greetings from Finland!

I came to this website to see if there is any new articles from you and there it is! Thank you Mr. Trump for this challenge, I think that everyone who gets the book with your signature are since then more eager to become Champions on their own career and life!

To me it would be something very special, unbelievable and I think I would be then the only one in the whole Finland with the book with your special signature! I would be very proud of it! That would be the great culmination on my education to carry on and to get more strength to go on my career and in my whole life and to my childrens life too! The book is full of good advices and thoughts when you think how you will managed to struggle through these difficult times and in business life as a whole and in future generally. I do respect very much your advices, because there is also emotion and warmth in your articles with large scale of knowledge and sense.

We are all Champions of our lifes, but when you want to get Champion in your career you must be in the same time firm, determined, warm and sensible and the most important thing is that you must like that work what you are doing. When you want to be the Champion you must accept the fact that not everybody likes you, allways there will be people who do not likes your opinion. Here in Finland we do say: Do not stay and cry the milk that has fallen, instead seek for new opportunities that are ahead.

"To have a vision fullfilled is enough for others. To have a vision that others follow is a king." That is the goal we must have in our dreams to be Champions.

I think I am a champion because I believe achievement means I am an intense person who expresses who I really am while staying open to growing and changing each and everyday..

I can write pages full of reasons. I guess an average person with some education can do that on any topic. But honestly I think for the champion there is only one reason. I want to win. I want to win so bad. I'll just have to get this. Now it's a book signed by Donald Trump. I'm in!

Donald,
Today I was having a conversation with someone today. We were talking about the conscious mind and subconscious mind. The main point is how do they work together as well as separate and in most casing working against each other but we should be working to making them work cohesively . The conscious mind is dealing with things which are concrete but also dealing with vast majority of emotions and feelings. Most basic are fear and anxiety. The subconscious mind does not deal with those things; it just takes away those barriers. So being a champion is learning how to make the subconscious mind work in our favor for a positive outcome. They will always work together weather we want them to or not. There are many different forms of Champions, I myself are finding the ways I can become a champion. During that conversation we were having I come up with a new concept and that is "positive procrastination" and yes that’s a weird way to look at it. But most people think negatively when people use that phrase. So I took it and put a positive spin on it. The first step to becoming a champion is having passion for what you do and doing it. I know I am not where I want to be but I also know that I am heading in the right direction and taking the first action step to becoming a Champion and because we are all thinking might as well think big just like you do.

Hello, Donald!
I haven't read yet your book "Think Like a Champion" and I don't know what is your vision of the real champion, but I believe I'm the one. And I've got some reasons for this.

First, I don't waste my time thinking if I should do all the necessary things to achive my goals or not - right now I've seen a good opportunity to get your book and my first action was to start typing this text.

Second, I know exactly that I'm strong enough to keep on moving higher and higher under real pressure. Even if I fall I stand up and continue my movement. I can say it honestly because five years ago I was a young boy and I lost my father. My mother was a housewife and in one moment my family lost everything. Literaly. We had no money, no food, we had nothing. But that didn't break me. I began to work really hard and nowadays I've got two businesses that are growing from day to day.

Third, I've got a dream. I want to build the most beautiful skyscraper the world has ever seen and I'll reach this goal whatever it costs.

One year ago I read your book called "How to get rich" and I began to think big - and I got results immediately. And I'm really sure that your new book can make me better and stronger so I'll buy it anyway. But if you send the book signed by you personally I promise that I will write on the front door of my future skyscraper "Thank you, mister Trump!" with big gold letters!

Thank you for your wisdom!
Serge Krotov, Moscow

In this economic environment we need to stay focused on the end result. There were champions in the late 1920s and their are many champions now. The key traits are perseverence, honesty, integrity, and self confidence. I am a champion because I focus on these traits in all areas of my life, not just my business. In these times we don't always meet the goals we set, but we never lower them. I've learned that I'm not average and will never be average as long as I always keep my focus on what is truly important in life. Do what's right and expect nothing less than the best.

During times of adversity, I reflect upon behavior and action and never give up in good times and in challenging times.

I have learned from positive people to not "follow the herd" and look for opportunities EVERYWHERE with the use of grace, intellectual competence, good timing, and drive!
If I make a mistake, I learn from the mistake, implement solutions, dust myself off, and MOVE FORWARD!

I view life as a perception of experience and appreciate the opportunities experienced in the past, yet never dwell on them.

Once again- I NEVER give up and constantly look for differing pathways to opportunities. This is the result of consistent intuitiveness, education, and drive.

These are aspects and traits to think like a champion!

Although these traits are important to be successful, I still gain further knowledge and strategies every day. Your expertise is also one of the resources for me.

Thank you for your consideration, Mr. Trump.

Sincerely,
Kathleen
Florida

Dear Mr. Trump,

I feel like I deserve one of your books on being a champion because I have proven myself to be a champion in many ways over the years.

1. I overcame numerous setbacks to work my way through school.
2. I have started and built a number of successful businesses.
3. I recognize how lucky I have been to be fortunate enough to have had some success, so I share that by giving back to my community through working with homeless and street kids.
4. I am constantly working on learning new ideas and putting those ideas to work so that I can create more success and overcome more challenges.

Dear Mr. Trump
I'm a champion because I'm a single mother of four children all of them are in school doing very well None of them Drink,Smoke, Or do Drugs And none of them are in gangs! I bought my first home last year in October after years of trying. I finally saved up enough to accomplish our goal. No I don't get child support from my ex ,I get what ever Family maintenance can get from him by taking it off his checks. He never sees his children. He never wanted to! I went through the worse divorce in history. My ex was trying to kill our four children and me, we were in the DVERS Program for years and we had to hide from him.. I am handicap and so are two of my children! I can't work because of my condition. I'm on a pension for life. But I'm doing the best I can..
I would love to go back to work, but my migraines are such that no employer would put up with them. I also have a back condition that prevent me from picking anything up over a pound or two. .. The headaches last sometimes for weeks at a time.. I'm great in sales I can sell anything!! I am trying to get healthy enough to go back to work. We are on a limited income.

So If that doesn't say Champion I don't know what would!!

PS. I can hear you saying loser! Your thinking about the guy and the ambulance and how everything happened to him! He couldn't catch a break if you handed it to him! YOU CALLED HIM A LOSER! But your wrong!!! I'm a winner! Most people would have said enough! An left this world! But I remember what My Mother said before she died, " She said she wished she could be here. She wished she were healthy enough to stay!" And that she could see Me get married again and be happy and she wanted to see my children grow up and have children of their own! Sadly that wasn't gods plan for her! He called his angel home! MY BEST FRIEND!!!
It's because of her strength that I stay strong, Because she had diabetes and died from it and the complications of it! She was in horrible pain in the end but she still wanted to live and to be here.. She fought till the end and that's what I'll do!!!! I use to weigh 578 plus pounds but because of what happened to my mother I dropped all but 210 lbs of it! I didn't want to die! I'm doing very well, I have a little bit more to go and i'll get there.. SO I am a CHAMPION ..


Thank you!
Katherine Provencher AKA "Kitty"

Mr. Trump,
I would like to get this book so I can learn from the Champion exactly that:
How to THINK like a Champion!!!
Appreciate it,
Jordan, Macedonia

Being clear, brief and bold - a central theme of 'Think Like a Champion' - is a key ingredient for success in business and in life in general. All the other attributes we may possess - including our education, desire to learn, and innovation - have limited impact unless we can clearly communicate out position and are willing to take that chance!

Hello over there.

It's Wedensday night over here in Norway, and I just saw your challenge. I would really like a book !

You know, we Norwegians are kind of blunt, so I won't try to suck up to you. I just wanna say: I'm great! and so are you. If you send me a copy I'll be greatful, and I'll make everyone else here buy one.

Nothing personal, just business.

Regards
Jens Gaarder

I am a Champion because I'm secure in what I do.
I've always been the outcast. The one no one really understands at first glance. That can hurt, but I NEVER stop moving forward with my goals, ever. I am as determined as a bull dog, but gentle as a lamb. I'm quiet, but not weak.

My excellence comes from the fact that I don't brag, too often, about my achievements. Most of the time, I use whatever attention I may get to help others achieve their goals. I am a nurturer. I offer support. We need the loud, aggressive types in this world, but I know there's something to be said about the ones who listen and react out of knowledge, as well as instinct. And that's me. That's why I am a Champion, and why I want this book signed by another Champion.

It is a privilege to be the the first to post a comment. I saw the opportunity to earn a signed copy of think like a Champion, and I wasted no time to provide reasons I think I am a Champion, and I'm working towards higher championships.

I have been a Realtor in Toronto Canada for 11 years, yet after losing momentum following the death of my brother and my father, within 2 years, I still tried to make my business work. With the new Privacy laws in the Toronto Real estate Board, and the Do Not Call registry, I had a difficult time drumming up business, especially with the lack of momentum.

I love real estate, but I was losing interest in that facet of it, so I had to change my focus in late 2008.

I hired Tony Robbins Training to rebuild my momentum and confidence and let go of baggage.

I decided to invest in foreclosed properties, in the US, where the market took a terrible hit. I researched the markets in US states, and cities and narrowed them down to a few of the most effected. This is new ground for me, so I hired the best and most reliable in this field... Trump University to mentor me.

After a few months of intense research, mentoring and training, I have started my new business, TCB Investment Properties, LLC, based in Nevada. According to the foreclosure statistics, Phoenix AZ was at the top of the list. I called and emailed, and corresponded with many people in Phoenix. and I spent a week there, in back to back meetings and touring the neighbourhoods.

Since February 2009, I have purchased my first foreclosed property, rehabbed it, relisted it, sold it and closed escrow within 2 months. In that meantime, I bought my 2nd house which has been rehabbed and is now listed. Phoenix is going very well.

I am also looking for a multiplex to hold for cash-flow, and leaving one unit available for owners of the foreclosed property I purchased, to live in for a 2-3 months til they can get their feet on the ground again...and I can proceed to get the house rehabbed and sold.

I am building connections, using the internet and Facebook, and I am working on another project and team in California.

I realized my ultimate dream to deal in foreclosed property and I am making a good return, so far, and more to come.

Since September 2008, my life has changed so positively, and I feel like a Champion.

Thank you to the Trump University.

Mr. Trump,
I should receive a signed copy of your book because I am a champion. I am a champion because I take pride in knowing about the world around me. I am 13, and all of my friends think I am crazy because of what I read. When everyone else was reading Twilight, I read The Assault On Reason, By: Al Gore. This is just one example of why I am a champion. I am different from the crowd, and I believe this is the key to being a champion. I idolize you, and someday hope to be as successful as you are. I would love nothing more than to receive your book with your own signature on it. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
-Teagan Sebba

Mr. Trump, the book autographed by you must be for me, because I am a champion because I fight every day to improve my situation, maximize every resource that I have in my power, and also because from the first time I saw her television show "The Apprentice" you have become an inspiration for me, since then 2 years ago, I've gone from being the last employee in that job, to be the branch manager of the most important

I have made money with real estate for the last 10 years and this is the first bad year I have had.....and it has been a bad one! That being said I have never looked at it as a failure, but as a great lesson and opportunity for growth. All my friends tell me how crazy I am to be looking at more investment houses when I am being forclosed on others. But I think you must always be looking forward, restructuring myself for the next opportunity. Yes I made mistakes. Yes I need to learn and probably earn a few more mistakes. But what good would it do to quit? What would I do with the school of hard knocks education I got this year? (and it was an expensive school!) There is so much opportunity out there right now I am not sure what I should do first. I see commercial property that I could never have afforded with my great credit scores, Now being offered to me with a 560 (foreclosure) score for 1/4 of what I would have paid last year. The sky is the limit on terms and offers. I feel I could learn quite a lot from you and your books.

I greatly admire those single mothers who raise their children by themselves and the drug addicts who turn their lives around to create a better life for themselves. I also admire the businessmen who refuse to give up when others say they should. There are champions in sports, champions in music, and champions in business, but I know that I will be a champion in life. No, I am not a single mother or a recovering drug addict. I am a woman who was raped by someone I thought was my friend, a daughter who has been called a whore by her father, and a college student forced to leave school to seek a job, vehicle and better housing. I have been offered aid by supposed friends who later said they could not help me, but even when things seemed bleakest, I knew quitting was not an option. There were simply too many true friends who looked up to me and professors who risked their jobs advising and helping me. I cared about them enough that the thought of letting them down broke my heart and drove me to tears. I simply could not quit, could not give up. So each day, I drug myself out of bed to look for jobs that may not exist and to deal with a family that didn't care about me or the things with which I struggled. I have found a job selling life insurance purely for a commission, and I continue to look for a job that would provide a steadier paycheck. I am also making preparations to return to school this fall, if not sooner. Because some members of my family refuse to help me get to work, I get up a 4 AM and walk 2.5-3 miles to the bus stop closest to my home to take a bus to work. I know I will make it, I will be okay. There are no other options.

Dear Mr. Trump,

What is a champion? A champion is commonly defined as one that wins first place in a competition. It has also been described as someone who is clearly superior or has the attributes of a winner. So, to convince you that I'm a champion, I COULD attempt to prove my superiority and winning attributes. I could claim such things as intelligence, creativity, determination, and a humble nature to boot. But all of those things require proof to really mean anything, which is beyond the scope of this comment. (Although hopefully you will see glints of those things within my comment).

Besides, when I looked up the word champion, in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the fourth definition caught my eye. That definition stated simply, "one who fights. a warrior." What better way to describe a champion in business and in life, then as a fighter?

I know from business and from life that a true champion is not always the person who wins first place. The real champion is the person who gets injured in the middle of the race, but finishes anyway. The real champion is the person who fails at a business venture, but who picks themselves up and tries again. The real champion is the person who overcomes fear and failure instead of succumbing to it. The real champions are not just winners, they are fighters.

So why am I a champion?

Because I am a warrior. I don't want to win. I want to annihilate and crush the competition. But my competition isn't the other people in the race. It's those things that have the power to keep me out of it, if I let them. Things like lack of resources, poverty, discouragement, self-doubt, lack of knowledge, etc. And the only way to beat these intangibles is to fight and destroy them. And, as any real fighter, I take a good beating every now and then. But I get back up, fight back, and make sure I re-stock my weapons every single day. My weapons are knowledge, education, motivation, action, and so many more.

Your book is one of those weapons. So, Mr. Trump, I ask you, do you want your weapon in the hands of a winner or a warrior? If it's a warrior, you know where to find me!

Sandra

I am a champion because I give my all in anything I do. I currently supervise the hearings division for the eastern region of my state; we are a division of the Board of Parole, and myself and my staff have responsibility for going to jails and penal institutions in our territory, and making recommendations as to who will be released on parole. It is a toughjob, but doubly hard as a woman; you must earn respect from staff as well as inmates, and show that you will not back down. I have 20 plus years' experience in the field, and am proud to say that I have a good name in the business.
I also have earned a fourth degree black belt in karate, with 25 years' experience, and have a small school. I have had the privilege of having people walk into the school knowing nothing about the martial arts, and help guide them on their path to a black belt. Again, a traditional male field, but my school has more male students than female.
I also teach a Sunday School class for women; we have single, divorced, and married females, and have dealt with very difficult situations with love and compassion, and also common sense.
In all this, I have felt very fortunate to have gifts to share with others, but I also have kept striving to learn, grow, and stay fresh. If you don't challenge yourself, and continue to learn, you become "stale", to borrow a word from Katherine Hepburn.
Thank you for this opportunity to communicate with you.

Donald, I really want to win your book! I am like you in a couple ways, direct, blunt and to the point, of course, some people can't handle the truth but I call them like I see them. Also my father was a hero of mine too just like your Dad was to you. My Dad owned a business and also owned real estate in rental properties and Iowa farm land. My sister and I inherited the Iowa farm land, that we rent out to a farmer, but the best turn of events was when we were approached by a Wind Farm Company, and now we have 17 gigantic wind turbines on our farms !! Its amazing, its environmental, and its green! I have always been a saver and we managed to buy our 2nd home for cash with profit from the first home. I never wanted to be in debt and I have achieved that. I am considering my next move of maybe buying winter vacation property in florida. The last time I was in Fort Lauderdale, last month, I noticed that you are building a brand new hotel on the beach. I love the hotel lifestyle too, so I will have to check in to your new hotel, once it opens. I think you are just great Mr. Trump and I watch your Celebrity Apprentice show all the time. In fact, Joan Rivers was just here at the Mall of America! She took a question from the crowd and I got to ask "Joan, What do you think of Donald Trump?" She said I love him and he raised 2 wonderful children!! so there!

Why do I think I am a Champion?

I was struck ill with a dibilitating diesease in 1990. My husband and I struggled with one income until our bills were all paid. December 2000, we bought our first house, moved in it on 2/1/01. We were happy utill my husband took sick that August. On 9/11/01 he was diagnosed with a meninginoma on the brain stem. Two days after surgery, David suffered a massaive stroke and I was forced to place him in a nursing home. I managed, I was holding on to the house by a thread, but the bills were all paid, UNTILL, August 29, 2005, the day Katrina hit, and ALL we owned was lost to seven feet of water and since FEMA said it was a 500 yr flood zone - we had no flood insurance. David was evacuated to a nursing home 200 miles from our nearest relative. I drove our van and rented a hotel room to be close to David untill I found a small house to rent.. We were never able to have children and all we had was each other. David and I faced the darkest days of our life alone. July 10, 2006, David died in my arms, still in that far away town, now I was really alone.

The week after David's funeral I went back to St. Bernard to look for a few paltry belongings. While I was there, I injured my foot on debris and 3 weeks later my leg was amputated above rhe knee. I was now forced to live in a nursing home, but I never gave up. I was in the nursing home 9 months and then I was back to my rented house STILL far from home.

Eight months later, I lost my other leg, above the knee as well. I am now back to my rental, still far from family. I have not been compensated for my home, nor did I get anything for it. As a matter of fact, my home was demolished by the city government and I was not notified of this nor that it was going to happen..

I feel like I am a Champion because after all the things that has happened to me, before I became 50 yrs old and, I AM STILL A SURVIVOR. i AM STILL ABLE TO WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND FIND REASON TO LIVE. MOST PEOPE IN MY PLACE WOULD HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TOO AND WOULD HAVE GIVEN UP A LONG TIME AGO.

Thank You, Gwen

Hello,

I think like a champion everyday when at work & play. I believe in the Trump motto of it's not personal, it's business. I think Trump the person, the name and the whole Trump organization is a wonderful mentor for all business big & small. I have kicked off various businesses and investments and feel that thinking like a champion is great way to rise to any challenge.

Thank you,
Jay
http://www.projectrealms.com
http://www.jayphilips.com

Dear Mr Trump,

I have just started out with my own network marketing business with a goal in mind: To be financially free through helping others to be financially free.

I believe that Champions are the ones who emerge from their own limitations, achieving victory from themselves as we are our own worst enemies. That is why i am into this business in order to give myself this challenge of overcoming limitations in which I have been trying to achieve, but did not have the true commitment to do so for the past 21 years of my life.

Now, facing challenges day after day is what i am experiencing and beginning to enjoy doing, as i know that one day, overcoming my own and helping others to overcome their limitations will eventually lead to my personal development and financial success.

Ultimately, I believe that seeing myself as a champion worth so much more than trying to make others see you as a champion. And I know that your book would definitely be one of the great boosters for my journey to become a champion.

Tan Wen

Good evening Mr. Trump,

This is a great and worthy gesture. I do love a challenge and I love a great bargain, but, I won't be competing for your book because I promised you I would not ask you for books - I would buy my own. My copy is already on order, but thank you for the opportunity. I will respond without competing for your gift.

The Websters dictionary defines a champion as "A holder of 1st place or winner of 1st prize in a contest" or "One who fights for a cause or defends another person." On more than one occasion, in my life, I have met this definition, but I think a champion is more than that. To me, being a champion is what went behind the end result. It is the heart, the determination, the spirit, the attitude, the enthusiasm, the drive, the character. It is that extra spark that says I hunger for more, I will go the extra mile. It is the strength to pick yourself back up after being badly beaten, and instead of dwelling on the experience as failure, taking it as a learning opportunity and beginning to plan for the next time the opportunity may arise. It is owning your own choices, being accountable, and responsible. It is initiative. It is being gracious in accepting your crown, and never resting on your laurels. It is reaching out to raise others to the same level of accomplishment. This is what I strive to be, and I believe it is what you are.

Dear Mr. Trump,

I began reading your books back in the sixth grade. I am currently a freshman in high school and I am having a great year after learning so much from your books. I have tried to apply everything that I have learned to all aspects of my life and I am proud to say that I am starting to see the rewards. I see myself becoming more and more successful each year and can not wait to build my own buildings in New York City. Through your advice in your books, I have set a solid foundation for my high school career. I am currently an officer for one of the school's clubs and I may possibly be the treasurer in another club next year as well.

After learning as much as I could in the sixth and seventh grade, I went on to the eighth grade where I started an economics class to help some of my fellow classmates see a view of the business world. Recently, a good friend of mine called me to say that some of the topics that were discussed in the class I was teaching helped him to understand a class lecture at the high school that he attends. Around the same time that I started the class I was reading one of your other books "Why We Want You to Be Rich." Because of that book, I decided to write a letter to my school board about increasing the financial education of our own students within the district.

I have come along way since the sixth grade and would like to thank you so much for the work that you put in to make all of us more financially literate. Thanks again and I look forward to reading "Think Like a Champion."

Thank you,
Matt

The fundamental skills to become a champion are patience and a positive attitude.

You must also do your research. Don't be afraid to fail, as long as you learn. Love your competition for they make you the better.

Everyone has an expertise. Master that to become a champion. Be the go-to guy for co-workers and your boss. Keep your winning percentage high.


I am 24 years old from Connecticut and I am just starting in the business of commercial real estate. I've been in the business for about one and a half years with my company and I've come across many champions and losers and have learned the traits that make them who they are.

A combination of the heart and brain working diligently makes up much of the recipe to become a champion. Then there is that small ingredient that is impossible to describe.

Thanks Mr. Trump and keep on blogging!

I have a career and calling. I was the vice president of the volunteer association in our college. I built up the bridge cards club together with other two students the first time in our school’s history. I was also in charged of the art division of the student association body. Most of my friends think that I live a successful life as a student leader. But I never satisfied. I am a creative girl with unlimited energy and passion. I bravely gave up all the titles I already had and planned to continue my bachelor’s degree in America. Many people think that transfer directly from mainland China to America is an impossible task. Though they persuaded me not to take the risk, I challenged myself. I worked very hard and stretched out my limit. Finally I am here at Penn State, with one of my dreams come true.

I have read two Chinese version of your books and watched all seasons of the apprentice and I am still watching it on NBC right now. I respect and admire you so much, Mr. Trump. While I was asked why I choose business area during my application to those American universities I answered you. You really inspired me a lot and let me always have the courage and passion to chase me dream! When people asked me whether I felt homesick for being so far away from home at a young age of 19, I answered never because I came here to take the challenge, to chase my dream and to fight for my life.

I am so happy that I have the chance to share my little story to you. I really wanna get the book. I will hope for the best.

Thank you very much!
Best wishes~

Dear Mr. Tump,

I'm a 31 yrs old single mom and working as a Sales Associates @ Bregdorf Goodman which is actually right across the street from your office. I truly believe and have confidence that I've became a Champion and deserve a copy of your book. About 2 years ago when I purchase my first condo and to be honest I always thought that I needed to have a lot of money to buy a property. But after meeting someone who became a close friend of mine and my mentor. She truly believe that I would be able to buy this condo and after learning all the steps with down payment, good credit score.....ect It took me only 3 months to close on my property and using it as an investment. It was the best feeling ever of owning my own property. I had work very hard to get where I am and have my son in one of the best private school in the city. But I did went to one of your free seminar last year about buying foreclosure and wasn't able to purchase one of your package...... I truly want to get into the Real Estate business and continuing my education. I'm always reading your blogs and checking for up coming events in the city. I'm actually going to the LEARNING ANNEX this Saturday and it would be an honor to meet you.


Sincerely,

Farah

I currently work a job I love. However, I want to promote myself and move up to a management position. I am limited to that opportunity due to not being mobile. This is because of a shared-parenting agreement.

I will not let this dilema stifle my goals and professioanl development. I am taking advantage of every developmental opportunity I can and am currently seeking my Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters designation. I plan to obtain my masters degree after completing my insurance education.

Although I have never read any of your books, I do watch The Apprentice and collect some valuable information from that. I too, believe in education!

Why I'm a champion:

I am a champion because I am a winner! I am a winner because I focus on structuring things to be in my favor, and doing the things I need to do to get what I want. Perseverance and focus works for me!

I recall you talking about your father and the advice he gave you about 8-up and how much it affected you over the years. That story really hit home for me too, I have shared it with so many people I can’t even count. Hopefully they have profited from it as much as I have.

Anyone who is reading this can be a champion--if they work hard enough at it. Hopefully "Think Like a Champion" will make a difference in people's lives . The top isn’t crowded enough, there's always room at the top for champions.

If times seem like they are going to be a little bleak during this temporary downturn, they won’t be bleak for me, or those I have influence over. Like a champion I will profit from it, "8-up".


Why I should get a book:

I haven’t read "Think Like a Champion" yet and I'm really looking forward to reading it.

Your books are always great I absolutely love them, they are good interesting read and filled with positive useful information that can be put to good use in life. I'm sure this book will be a 1st class winner for you as well as everyone who reads it.

Also because this is a challenge getting a book like this would be a real win for me and the dollars and cents of it is--I like to brag about my wins. Meaning if you choose to send me a book you can bet I'll be talking it up to everyone I know--and I know a lot of people. People who buy books--and read them! Hopefully it will make a positive impact in my life, and in their lives too.

Dear Mr. Trump,

I have already purchased and read much of your new book. I believe it is the best for understanding what makes you such a champion leader, thinker, and successful businessman as well as family man. You have my highest respect and admiration. When I achieve success following the Trump Way, I will ask you to sign my book at that time. Thank you for being such an inspiration, support, and mentor.

pl, investor-in-training

I am a 36 year old disabled police officer. I had a heart attack at 29. Realizing that my life's value was much more than it is, I am enrolled back in college. I will seek, ongoing the value of education. I am doing better health wise. I am doing better overall and I became a volunteer firefighter in Punxsutawney, PA. I did this to give back to my community a part of which I have received in form of benefits and Social Security. I am looking forward to serving once again, and am eagerly seeking employment. I know I will have to relocate. There is not much need for an individual that desires to seek a Doctrine in Business. I have a long way to go. I will not give up, I will continue to fight, and I will continue to be strong.

Well, as I sit here just coming out of the nasty end of a depression bout, I ponder your question. I am a survivor to say the least. I've survived child abuse at the hands of the adults in my childhood, abuse at the hands of my choices in life partners. I've survived being a single Mom and growing 5 beautiful young people. I fight every day to find a place to live as I am currently surviving homelessness. Clinical Depression has been my sidekick for decades and I'm surviving that too!
I AM a hero & a Champion because I'm me. And one day things will go better for me because I keep trying and smiling and saying good morning and thanking God for my every little blessing.
I am a Champion because my daughter thinks so!

Mr. Trump,

I would like to start off by saying that an autographed copy of your book would be a great addition to my collection.

I believe that I am a champion because like yourself I've never given up and I always fight the good fight when I know that I'm right. Even though times are tough I'm still always creating great real estate ideas. I'm from a small town in Pennsylvania but, like you I'm very proud of the history of my great city ( Oil City ). For the past 9 yrs. I've come to NYC for the NFL Draft and I always visit your properties to see what you will come up with next. The first time I came to NYC I saw why you wanted to work in Manhattan and why you never gave up on your dream. Someday I hope that I can transform my small town because it too has great history and it would be a shame not to preserve it.

I would just like to thank you for your encouragement of all of us that follow your leadership. As of this moment I'm currently working on a restaurant idea that will take the world by storm and create one of the finest dining experiences for the entire family. I've also thought of a great format for a season of the Apprentice if you're at all interested. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Respectfully,

Shawn L. Balcita

Mr. Trump,

I believe "Thinking like a Champion" would lead one to success in life.

I have been through quite a number of challenging competitions in the past and I am happy with my achievments so far. However, these competitions could not be compared with the ones I am about to face in the future after my degree [I am currently 21 yrs old this year].

I am a person who "THINK BIG AND KICK ASS", which is also one of your books' titile.

I am looking forward in reading this book as the book description is very interesting.

I believe that by reading this book, I could do better in preparing myself to face the future challenges to achieve my goal as one of the most successful person in the world.

Hence, I will be honoured to receive a signed copy book from you, Mr. Trump.

Thank you.

- Chanel from Malaysia.

I believe I'm a Champion in the making. I've been operating a homebased travel agency for several years. I decided to start selling vacations after I became ill and was unable to continue to work for a corporate travel agency. After a battle with a very rare bone cancer and complications from back surgery, I found myself in a wheelchair, paralysed at only 28 years old. I struggled for some time to come to terms with my new life but there was something inside saying, "Dont you dare quit!". And once I put my mind to something, I accomplish it. So I fought through rehab and after some months (seemed like years) I took my first steps.
Today, at 33 years old, I can now walk with the assistance of a very stylish cane and I'm creating a successful travel agency. My focus turned to booking honeymoons and destination weddings and I felt content.
Which brings me to why I think I'm a champion in the making. After consulting with a business coach, I realized my focus is all wrong. While honeymoons and destination weddings is a great niche, I didn't feel specialized anymore. So many travel agents saw the money potential in booking weddings so I was no longer a specialist and could not distingush my brand from my competitors.
I am reinventing my brand and moving my focus to accessible travel. I am a disabled young woman who's passions lead me to travel and in my new state, it can be extremely challenging. I can imagine how much worse I'd feel if I were in that wheelchair dreaming of a white sanded Caribbean beach.
I now have the means to help young adults who are disabled just like myself, travel in a fulfilling manor just like anyone who is "normal". My dream is to make a difference in someone else's life whose been affected by something life altering. I want young disabled adults feel like they can experience their dreams, too, like anyone else. I want to rebrand and be a champion.

Thank you for this opportunity mr. Trump!

To be a true champion requires a lot of hard work and commitment. When I was small I always planned for big things - I have always had trouble to understand why some people want to settle down for less when they could still achieve so much more in life.

I've read many of your books (I have 7 in total) and I find them a great source of inspiration. If Im ever uncertain of something in business, I often go back to your books and think what would Donald Trump do (or what he has done) in a similar situation.

I started my first business with a couple of my friends when we were just 15 years old. After that, I started my current business while studying my first year in Business College here in Finland. It's been now almost 8 years from that day and my business is growing strong and profitable. Last year I started my other company in the USA. What I believe makes me a champion is that I started my business with no money, printing out my first invoices with my friend's printer. I never had any investors. I've never been unemployed. Today, my businesses have well over a 1000 customers globally. I work hard and long hours, some days from 7AM to 03AM. It's not always easy but just like you, I love what I do.

In the middle of all this, I served 6 months in the military with no interruption to my business and spent two years abroad and Im going abroad again this year to promote my business and to build new contacts.

5 ingredients of a champion. 1. The ability to convert ideas to thing is the secret of outward success. 2. There is no success without hardship. 3. Failure makes people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. 4. Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. 5. The lord hears my weeping; he listens to my cry for help and will answer my prayes. My enemies will know the bitter shame of defeat; in sudden confusion they will be driven away.. Mr. Trump, i am from the philippines, i am proud to be a filipino, a true champion. Lets launch your book in asia countries 1st stop philippines. I want to be your apprentice.

You can hear the left and right, the crisis is everywhere, we include the crisis, streseaza us and scare us. We do not believe. Create a crisis in November, because we scare the smallest impediment, drastically reduce our budgets and we ignore customers. No longer provide facilities not invest in the company's image and keep the money in your pocket. New! There will be multiplied so! Instead, if we have normal wear, I normally do business and we provide both customers and the company needed attention, things would go at least as good as before That's because a company is not strong scare of a "crisis" for the little ones know how strong to remain on the market. You have to put in the picture, because in substance, that sell. Attract customers through promotions, presentation materials attractive neglecting other aspects if you really want in this, but in any case the image in front of the client company. For this it is important to have a team with people who know what they are doing, who can help and advise each other. We offer maintenance strategies by Zone Representation Promoting Business and brokerage companies in any area Botosani-Suceava-Iasi in Romania, and also can improve the image in front of the customer, that if the potential of our employees were scared so hard for so called "crisis" that to keep his money in pocket Our thinking to be champions is the following:
In the beginning was the idea of clinging to us and started Inspire We continued with perseverance and have created a family Petrica Iordache Botosani-Romania ..... ... Because people had the right ideas and put them in according to context. I learned new things and are not important on instinct, they are built from ideas, inspiration and perseverance. I could write more, but talk a lot ... breaks. Better collaborators who seek to put on trial.
Thanks MR. Trump for the opportunity to express my idea of your blog.

Hello Mr Trump,

I'm from a small country in Eastern-Europe - Estonia (former Soviet Union country). I'm wondering if you know anything about my country (your friend Robert Kiyosaki knows, you can ask about Estonians from him, you could be surprised ;).

Anyway I would like to thank you, because you are one of the people who has made me realize that I am a champion. A few years ago I was just an ordinary young man who was studying in university and looking for a good job. But then I discovered Robert Kiyosaki books and thanks to him I also got to know about you. I have read your book "How to Get Rich" (I think it is your only book translated into Estonian), I have watched your tv-show "The Apprentice", I follow your blog and I have learned a lot from you and Robert. I have learned to THINK BIG. Now I know that I do not have to be a small employee, I can be a big employer. I can make a difference. There are a lot of people who do not know the possibilities they have, because they are thinking small. I know that I can help them and I will.

I have made my first steps to create my own business. I have introduced the idea of thinking big to other people and I really enjoy giving them new ways to think about life. And I continue to learn from you and other great champions so that I would be one day a great champion too and also help other people to become one. I have what it takes!

Thank you!

Mr. Trump,

I believe strongly in the value of education and knowledge. Not to gain it for the sake of encylopedic imitation, rather to allow me to inspire those that I come into contact with during my daily dealings, regardless of their station in life. I believe in doing rather than talking about and yes, during this economy we must think of ways to to inspire those that have allowed the talking heads of the press and media to bring their confidence to the ground. There is so much opportunity out there!

During our weekly sales meetings I have witnessed extra bounce and swagger from my team. We refuse to engage in "downbeat" sessions - we share best practices, we discuss our challenges and we look for new ways to engage them and move forward. Since many read other peoples' posts ( I have and many have inspired me with their energy!) - I want to exhort my "classmates" here to take the mission upon themselves to lead, to inspire, to create, to embrace life every day, as we are always ahead on that scoreboard as long as we are on the right side of the six foot equation!

I am a Champion because I never quit being challenged. I learn new things even when the learning process is difficult. I always say, "Thank you" when someone helps me. I offer my help to others. I am loyal and can be trusted to "do the right thing" even when others can't be counted on or disappoint me.
A true Champion achieves when others give up or fail. A Champion wins with courage, patience, timing, experience and sometimes a little luck. I use all of my skills to the best of my ability and ask for help when I get confused. Eventually I am led back to the path I belong on. I walk this path with other Champions and share the pleasure of good company.

I have collected all of your books, and you have autograped one for me. Just remember to spell my name correctly if you decide to send me a copy of your latest work. I already told you what I will do with it if you don't respect me as much as I respect you.

Respectfully,

Cheryle

Mr. Trump,

I didn't get the chance to read your new book yet. In my opinion a champion is a visionary that achieves his objectives overcoming the obstacles he encounters in the process. With modesty, I am a champion, and my record stands as proof. At the age of 23, I have a degree in Economics obtained in Romania, my home country, and a degree in Business Management obtained in the UK, where I currently live. Another objective that I achieved 2 years ago was exploring the United States and experiencing the American lifestyle by working alongside U.S. citizens in New Orleans for a summer.
I came across many and sometimes unique obstacles along the way. From money problems to language and cultural differences, I managed to stay ahead by being adaptable, by having initiative and an entrepreneurial spirit, and by being a good leader.
I find "The Apprentice" to be inspiring from a leader's point of view. I also think that your show is much better than the one here in the UK, which seems to lack the authenticity.
I am a big fan of yours and I would be honoured if you will send me a signed copy of your book.

With respect,

Lucian Stancu

My reason -> I am a <a href="http://www.google.com/#q=ciprian+gherghescu&hl=en&start=0&sa=N&... media champion</a>. Thank you! I appreciate it. -> but the truth is my success comes from taking your advice to 'think big'. It got me across oceans, excelled academically in a different language than my native language.

I'm studying half a year at one of the best universities in Germany. The rest of the year I am working in a large international company, being an executive assistant. Today I'm already project manager, Next year I will finish with my Bachelor after just three years, Thus in half of the time as I'm also working. Besides I'm studying at Trump University. Therby I meet the challenges of todays business world with just 21 years of age. In my private time I'm active in the city's comission for migrants integration. Am I a champion - I don't know but I get things done.

Have a great day!

Because I got the three golden ingredients.

-I have a good heart.
-I am tough.
-I am wise.

And I will fight when I know I am right.

I aim to achieve the best for myself and to make sure everyone get what they deserve, good or bad.

I live after my principles that were born in blood, sweat and tears.


Details:

I recently got my first job, ever. Selling luxury luggage, I earn more money per hour than many poeple my own age.

It did not take me long to get it either. It was the first job interview I was ever on. And I nailed it. And all of this in the middle of a global financial crisis.

Why was it my first job, well, because I've been struggling with many things in my youth, amongst them dual lung collapse. And after all I am only 20 years old.

And I have a master plan. I am planning to expand my success in the sales business. I have personally been in contact with the leader of a Ferrari/Maserati dealership and plan to conquer that to. All in conjunction with my master plan. Alternatively, I am going to new heights, literally. As a potential airline transport pilot. I have already been on a test flight you see.

I'm not only growing on the business front. A strong body takes a strong mind. That's why I have been at the gym on a regular basis now for the past year. That takes discipline, and courage. Especially when you don't have the strongest bodykit to begin with.

So hopefully, I have a long time left to be a champion in this world. And therefore experience all the advantages and disadvantages that means. But I definantely think the advantages outweighs the disadvantages. If I thought otherwise, I do not believe I would be a champion.

This is who I am and what I do.


Greetings

Alf J. Lundgren

I think that being a "champion" means that when you are absolutely scared out of your mind about something or you see something in front of you that in normal circumstances would be completely beyond your "comfort zone", that you rise above it and overcome it. My father spoke once about being okay about fear and I feel like when we can be scared and still go out and do what is expected of us, professionally and personally, that this is a quality of being a champion.
HJC

Mr. Trump,

I am a champion because I look after and take responsibility over my 3 younger siblings while both my parents are working in Italy since I'm a year old. What makes me more outstanding than other champions is my dedication for hard work and success and I dedicate this all in the honor of my parents and my goal of giving the well-deserved good life for my parents. That's why I have chosen to open a start-up business and to make it big.
You have been a GREAT inspiration.
Thank You.

Dear Mr Trump,

When I was 5, my parents uprooted themselves from China and launched themselves into a completely new and uncharted territory; Australia. Being an only child, with parents who did not speak the language, I quickly became the ‘first-point-of-contact’ for external dealings. They were champions in themselves, coming to Australia with nothing but 2 suitcases. They started a business from scratch when I was 7, and now have their own thriving immigration and tax advisory business. They taught me to take calculated risks, showed me the differences between being an employee, being self-employment, and being an employer, and the extent of independence of each.

One of my passions, initially inspired by my parents, is for real estate. From a young age, whole Saturdays were consumed by visiting ‘Open for Inspections’, and the whining, which first took place, soon grew into an appreciation for the worth and beauty of good design, value and potential. Now, at the age of 18, I can estimate the value and potential of a property quite accurately in most suburbs in Sydney, and delight in researching an area. One of my goals is to amass a worthy portfolio of real estate by the time I am 30, something which my parents are on their way to achieving.

My other passion is for business. This passion had no beginning, and perhaps shall have no end; it simply exists. I have had numerous ideas in the past, which simply pop into my head as I observe people in their daily tasks. It is in my nature to ‘think big’ as you put it, in your book Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life and I certainly love a challenge. Often, these ideas do not fully develop, but the process of investigating these ideas have richly enhanced my life and skills; for example, my idea to create an online voucher store when I was 14 led me to discover how to imbed a security system into web-pages for credit-card transactions – priceless knowledge and experiences I will never forget.

This is my first year of University (College, in the States), and I am currently also working on a business project. My plan is to defer University next year, start-up my business, and work for its success, as I believe one cannot wait too long, before the window of opportunity passes forever.

No doubt, a signed book would be an invaluable inspiration to me, as I have always admired you, your attitude and your achievements; but regardless, I would like to thank you for engaging with the public, and sharing your wisdom and experiences to better the lives of others. I want to become a champion, like you.

Thank you,

Wendy

Mr Trump:

I am the ultimate champion and competitor. Over the course of my career I have learned a lot of information about goal setting, saving money, making money, investing, leadership, management, overcoming adversity, motivation, inspiration, dreaming big, internet marketing, blogging, and money management.

My plan is to package everything I have learned and go to our schools and speak to our future leaders and help them prepare for tomorrow. This is my way of giving back. This also enables me to prepare more champions for generations to come.

The skills I have learned will enable me to compete on your show, "The Apprentice", and win hands down.

I look forward to hearing from you. It would be nice to have an Apprentice like game at some of our high schools. Perhaps I could sponsor it.

Mel

My husband and I decided that 2009 would be the year we start our business. So in January we took off in full force; obtained our LLC with the help of Trump consultants, obtained a business license, and started looking for properties. Then in February my husbands lost his job – what a blow. We were in shock the most upsetting thing was he was one of those employees that gave 110% and the only reason they could give him was "it is a business decision". Well, if it doesn’t kill you it makes you stronger; our passion to be self-employed is more powerful than every. No one should determine our fate except us. Had we not already started the process we may have been in a worse state; but knowing that there is something better in owning our own business is priceless and we are up for the Challenge!!!

Thank you for the kind gesture. I would love to have a copy of your book in my library. I truly believe that the battle for success is first won in the mind. As with many things, our thoughts can determine the outcome of our efforts. - Fairfield Bain

Being a Champion doesn't make it so by just saying it or wishing it. Being a Champion is willing to do whatever it takes to become a Champion. Education is one of the fastest ways to become a Great Champion and trusting your instincts your gut feeling that you are making a Champion decision. I know I am a Champion because I care enough about myself and my family to do whatever it takes to Win and Win Big. It may not be today but my focus and gut feeling tells me that with the hard work I am accomplishing, it is not very far away. Your book would be a great inspiration while overcoming obstacles.

Thanks for this opportunity Mr Trump,
Pamela Harper - Belfast, Maine

Mr. Trump I Am A CHAMPION!! I have had many challenges in my life. I have went through custody battle, divorce, lost my home and had all my savings taken from me leaving me with a negative balance in the thousands in my bank account and my credit rating fell to the bottom. I have to admit what helped me to keep moving forward was you. I remember your VISA commercial when you jumped out of the dumpster and two women passing notice you and made a comment regarding your dumpster jumping? Look Where You Are NOW!! I have been watching and learning from your. I am happy to say that I am turning my life around. I have a healthy relationship with my son, a wonderful man that loves me and a I am an Entrepreneur. I have turned my credit score from rock bottom to low risk in just a few months. I still have a lot to learn and want to keep building my legacy. I would like to include a signed copy of your book to my library and to share with others. I have two last words Pick Me.

Regards,

Joann D

In my current position, I manage smart, focused people. Some of them have a world of options and others are in a role that they will develop in for the rest of their lives. Larger than that, I manage in a contact center where we believe that you are every individual's manager and hold the ability the influence and gain buy in whenever an opportunity presents itself. And...larger than that, I represent my company on an individual level to hundreds of customers a month. My customers are CEOs of insurance companies and they are cash-only single mothers whose minivans just broke down.

I am fueled by the passion I have to make each person's life I interact with better, easier, and positive. I know that the only way I can maintain my excellence in service is by continued self-reflection and working to understand characterisitcs like gentleness and how to tame a spirit to be inspiring, thoughtful, and patient. For this, I am a champion for people in this day in age who just need a friendly, "solidly good" interaction with another human being.

Thank you - Take care -
Erin

Champions are made of faith, perseverance, discipline and effort. This is why I am a champion.

Dear Mr.Trump,
the mere fact that I can write letter, that makes a champion.
My name is Albena Borisova, live in the former socialist country of Bulgaria. I am the champion because I am from a generation that has always lived in crisis - by changing the regime of battle for growing children, when the shops are emoty and no money the battle of political parties who are desperate to genocide her people. I am the champiob because I am a mother of two children make a living with digniti, proving that time has come to the educated and well trained people to prove themselves si. I take a great prite is that the world is changing I can communicate and even now and althougt not directly with you. I am the compion because they learn from the best and you are my idol.
Greetings from Bulgaria and me Albena

I'm a champion because I read your books and follow your advice!

One said "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime". I believeyou and Trump University are doing exactly just that. A book is just a baby step, but the way your think will affect me for a lifetime. I hope one day, I can make different in people's lifes like he way you do.

I think the champion spirit is :" never give up, never regret, and never take it personal". Mr. Trump, your books are always an inspiration to me. Thank you.

Hello Mr. Trump,

Why am I a champion?

Because I've beaten the odds. I went from being the stereotypical black youth, doing poorly in school, smoking marijuana everyday, being angry and violient and aspiring to be rapper, to graduating from university (the first in my family line), getting ordained as a minister, starting my first company (the first in my family line), becoming a husband, and getting a clear vision for my life. I was the first to get into drugs, fighting and tattoos in my neighbourhood, but after turning my life around I was the first to graduate from university, start a business and get married. I was so dedicated to being somebody that I left all of my friends who weren't doing good. I was willing to lose everything I knew as comfortable to make something out of my life. I've always been able to make the decisions necessary to position myself for what I saw ahead even if they're hard.

I've also always been dedicated to learning. I'm now reading "The Trumps: Three Generations that Built an Empire" by Gwenda Blair so I can learn more about how to build a legacy. "Think Like a Champion" would be a logical next step in my studies. I believe it'll give me the practical tools to build the legacy I'm currently reading about.

That's me. I am a Champion!

Kevin from Canada

I am a champion because I decided to be one. Winning is an ongoing process, so I focus on my goals and my future. I have learned that wisdom can come from failures, but that does not make me a failure. I am a champion because I realize that learning only from personal experience can waste time too. That is why I want to continue to be a student and learn how you think and what you do---to associate with a winner like you Mr. Trump and gain wisdom from your experiences.

Winners are born. Champions are made.

I raised six children of my own. Took in someone's else's child, whom is still with me. I worked two jobs to support them. We went through alot together. I taught them to take responsibility for their own actions. That despite what may be dealt them, not to live their lives as victims.
I lost one of my daughters two years ago on Christmas in a car accident. And despite all the heartaches and desparity, I still find the strength to self educate. Constantly learning something new. I am a manager for a tax service. I am now a licensed Real Estate Agent. I am at a crossroads in my life where I am trying to bring everything altogether.
Through some of the darkest moments in my life, your website had given me something to focus on.
Through the financial difficulties of supporting so many people, through your website, I found hope for a better financial future.

Thank you,

Yvonne Maldonado

Dear Mr Trump - Thank you for the opportunity to receive one of your personally autographed books. I would be thrilled to own one, and especially your newest, "Think Like a Champion"!
I did a paper, long ago in school, about both you and Mary Kay Ash as the two business people I would most like to emulate. You, as the straight-shooting, major money maker with vision and bounce-back-ability like no other. Mary Kay Ash as the pioneer for female entrepreneurs putting Faith first, Family second and Career third and becoming a success not in spite of it, but because of it! Being a Canadian, it was thought strange that I would focus my attention on two Americans instead of a Canadian but I live in the heart of the 1000 Islands and you're just a glance over the river!
I was widowed at 30 years of age and had to find a career that would challenge me and allow me to grow from strength to strength. I chose Mary Kay and within 9 months, I became the Queen of Sales and retained the position for 4 consecutive years whilst earning my pink Mercedes! My unit was knows as Emo's Entrepreneurs and we were based in Belfast Northern Ireland at the height of the troubles. I championed both sides of the community to improve their lives and become part of the global community throwing away both orange and green to become pink :0)
Fast forward 10 years; my Father passed away and I needed to move back to Canada to care for my Mother who was unable to live on her own due to major health issues. In doing so, I had to give up my MK career and find something which would allow me to work in and around the needs of my Mother.
I chose Real Estate as my new career and felt fortunate to have had Donald Trump and Mary Kay Ash groom me for success. I feel it so necessary to further my education through my accumulated business library both in my home and of course, in my car with CDs. (sadly, no longer the pink mercedes!)
I read everything I can get my hands on and I still feel like a champion even though the market has shifted. I believe in cycles and know that there is money to be made in difficult times. I am my family's sole support of income and I need to continue to think like a champion. Your latest book would be a great help to that end and I would be honoured by your consideration.
PS. Mr Trump, I am never too busy to show you some of our beautiful river properties. Have you ever considered owning one of the 1000 Islands?

Hello Mr. Trump. First I would like to say that I think you're fantastic and I love watching The Celebrity Apprentice! I am a long-time entrepreneur creating successful businesses in advertising, promotional wear, and currently run a successful business in the fire protection industry and another providing accessible, residential construction to the handicapped. The reason I feel I am a champion is not only from my past successes but also what I am about to create this year. This current project we are about to launch, will benefit charitable and non profit organizations globally and will support the beliefs and efforts of the millions of people involved in charitable causes and philanthropy. This project will create a better world to live in and will be bigger than Facebook. Sound amazing? Well we think it is but being a realist, only time will tell. I caught the entrepreneurial bug many years ago and I guess once it gets in your blood, it is in you for good.
You are an inspiration Mr. Trump and I wish you continued successes.

Mr. Trump,

I consider myself a Champion for a variety of reasons. I started in the Commercial Door and Hardware Industry 26 years ago as a Shipper/ Receiver and have moved up the ladder to a Sales Consultant through hard work and by educating myself on my Industry and in Sales Help type programs (Time Management, How to Get Rich etc) and I have been looking after a territory in Canada. My annual Sales Budget each year is 1.3 Million Dollars and last year we ended the year at 2.8 million dollars. We presently have a backlog of 5.7 million dollars which I am hoping will carry us through the present economic crisis.

My key to success is to work as hard as I can for my customer to provide them with the best service possible. I am sure there may be people more knowledgable than I but I have met very few who are willing to work hardrer.

I have always been a big fan of yours and read and watch most programs that you are on. In the early days of the Apprentice I found your little excerpts on Sales & Marketing to be extremely educational and wish that you still did that on every episode..

I also have a dream to own my own business but outside of my present industry. I will keep plugging along until that dream becomes a reality.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and I would love the opportunity to win your book. If not, I will be heading out to the store to pick one up.

Best Regards,
John S Robinson

Hello, Mr. Trump.

I started thinking like a champion just this past March when I began day trading on the New York Stock Exchange after a long time away from it. My job is enough for the life that I have. I'm a Senior Security Officer with Nationwide Insurance making around 40K per year. I received a nice bonus this year as part of my annual review in February and scored a 5% pay increase for my work in 2008. My girlfriend and I just put a deposit down on a nice townhome in New Albany (the town Les Wexner of Limited Brands built).
As you can see, in a time in America's history where so many are suffering, I'm truly happy and fortunate. But something was missing.
Studying the stock market since my junior year in high school, I've had different points in my life where I'd play around with my money. Buy and sell a little here and there. This year, I decided I wanted back in after I received my bonus from work. I started watching Ford and regional bank, Huntington very closely and in early March, I started trading. Back and forth between Huntington and Ford, I've completed four trading cycles (buy here, then sell here), and have made at least $100 on each of those.
My plan is to expand on this as I consider these cycles to be a success. To grow wealth by letting my money work for me.

I am a champion. Thanks for your time!
Dennis Kelley

Thank you Donald for allowing us the opportunity to view in a very small part your business expertise. I enjoy your writings and learning from your experiences.
I do not know if I am a champion or not. I am someone who never quits, trys to always move forward and works hard to create better circumstances for myself and my family. To that end, I am in my last term of college education majoring in business. I have been working for 5 of the last 6 years on completing my degree all while working full-time as the head of a single income family. The biggest challenge has been the balance of these three major areas of my life, work, education & family. Without my wife by my side, it all would have been far more difficult for me.
I would very much like to read your book, but with my job security in question, and funds for school tying up most of my extra income, I do not see being able to make that purchase now. I will have to wait for it to show up in the library system.
Keep up the good work, I look forward to more of your gems.

A champion is not only someone with superior skills but someone who is ardent about a cause or another person. I am both. Left with a three year old boy and a mortgage,earning $9,000 a year in 1978, I went back to night school and earned a Certified General Accountant designation (equivalent to a CPA in the US). Was it difficult to spend 30 hours on school after working fulltime, overtime and looking after an active little boy? It sure was, but i persevered, knowing that education was my only hope for a decent future for my family and myself. it took my 6 years at night but I graduated with an excellent average. By that time, I was working as a Controller for a small sales service computer company and had doubled my salary. I was the first female Controller in my city in the early 80's. In addition to running the accounting department, I also developed expertise in IT management and have managed both the Finance department and Information Techology department everywhere i have worked.

I have now raised by salary by 10 - I currently make over $90,000 as Director of Finance for a small women's university, affiliated with a large university. Not only do I still run the IT department but I am taking over the food services operation for the university, a department I know nothing about but there is a huge need for it to be revamped and run correctly. I am convinced a good manager can run anything. While I was debating whether or not to do this, i read a comment of yours in your blog and it was the tipping point. You said "You have got to think big"

While my career has been rewarding, my son has struggled. He was a challenging child who I dragged to every professional I could find. By nine he was diagnosed as hyperactive and the medication did work. However it was obvious that something else was wrong. In his teens, he was uncontrollable and ran afoul of the law. I stuck by him, getring him as much help as I could - not an easy task while you are working full time. Finally in his 20's, he was diagnosed as bipolar and is doing well on medication. I have him committed twice to the hospital to get this diagnoses. This involves going to court and getting a court order to have the police pick him up and put him in the hospital - a very difficult decision. A lot of mentally ill people do not have family with the guts for such a difficult decision and they never get well. I research mental illness, talk to as many doctors and psychiatrists who will listen and attend support groups. It consumes hours of my time but people with a mental illness need an advocate.

I bought a small house which I rent to my son to provide him with safe lodging. He is now 33 and is no longer working. He is an excellent sales rep but cannot manage the stress. I am actively looking to set him up in a small business he can run himself. I have about $10,000 for start up fees but we haven't found a good idea yet. Needless to say, it is a challenge to maintain the two houses and put away adequate money for the future. I see other people with mental illness and little family support all the time and they so not do well. Countless doctors have said that my son is so highly functioning solely due to me. I have laughed, I have cried but i keep on championing the cause of mental illness and fighting for his sanity.

The real challenge will come in 5 years when I retire. There simply will not be enough money to support two houses. I continue to search every day for a solution that will get my son working and able to support himself. I use you as an example. You are up and down financially in some of your many companies but you keep looking for solutions and you find them.

I will continue my two full time jobs - to excel at work, mentoring younger women, and to fight for more resources for the mentally ill. I will never give up hope.

I don't know if I'm a champion or ever be one, but I feel like a lion every time I face a challenge. I never ask why, but always WHY NOT! and tend to take the best of each experience. I’m inspired by family, friends, experts/gurus but also by regular Jo’s that cross my path. Learning is the 2nd thing that gives me more satisfaction, just after leading by sharing my experience. I’m not a guru or a teacher just my one leader, seeking and wanting more from life.

Thank you for the inspiration!

Paulo
Portugal

Every day is a challenge. We all are faced with problems whoever we are and whatever we do.
In my position there are times when I would love to walk away however as a father of 4
wonderful boys and a Great Wife I put the needs of others first ! I must be thankful I have a
job and will give my boss my all everyday.
I will set by example and I hope I will set a proper example for my children as well as
the people I work with.

Thank You

Hello Donald Trump,

I am a business owner and entrepreneur myself, I am always looking to improve my understanding of business and marketing concepts and admire your success. I first bought you book Marketing 101 to see how I can improve my Marketing Department and have used it as a model for my Staff. Eventhough I have Business degree from a prestigious university, I enjoy reading books by other Business Professionals to see how they have succeeded. I look forward to reading your book.

I am a Champion because I started my own business over 10 years ago and we continue to grow regardless of the economic conditions. Eventhough these have been tough times, I am not going to let it slow me down and look to add more professionals to my staff, regardless of the downturn in the economy. We must continue to remain positive if we are to succeed. I want to believe I am a Champion because I continue to inspire my staff to remain positive and look at all we have to be thankful for, like living in this great country and having the ability to succeed, regardless of your background or experience. We should all be grateful for what we have and look to educate ourselves to become even better in the future. Look forward to reading your book.

Sincerely,

Randle Payne

Dear Mr. Trump:
I have a story to make and write about. I am an unemployed, single, 50 year old mother of 3 children, 24, 21, and 9 years old. living in NJ. I have invested in real estate by buying bank-owned foreclosures, rehabing, and flipping within 3-6 months for quick profit in the past. I wished now, I had held onto the real estate for income producing and pay off for retirement and to leave for my children. My son, Christopher Offenbacker, is in one of your books about his experience with The Learning Annex that my brother, my mother, my son, and I attending in Philadelphia, PA about 2 years ago. I want to be your comeback old kid story that if I can do it, anyone can do it. I would love a signed copy of your latest book. Yours sincerely,
Annella Sue (Susie) Offenbacker

The book should be sent to me ASAP! I am a champion because I AM FOCUSED. All champs know that in order to win, you must:
-be willing to answer other truthfully and direct
-understand others goals, objectives
-provide value at all times
-be an expert in your field
-ask power questions
-be diligent
-at all times be responsive
-have a method
-overcome any obstacles in your way

Mr. Trump, I am certain 100% that you will agree to my thinking above. Thanks in advance for being so generous.

PS--I am also a boy from Queens!

First of all, I loved reading the above comments. All were inspirational.
I feel that I deserve an autographed copy of Mr. Trump's book as I am a champion in the making myself. I have dealt with some rather serious adversity in these past few months, both personally and professionally, yet rather than letting it break me, I used that negative energy, turned it on its head and did something positive with it. I am currently aggressively pursuing my dream of being a published fiction writer. I have, in fact, been published (just a short story). I have completed one novel and I'm starting on another, in addition to writing the periodic short story. I have completely redone my life, both mentally (I now have a strong, positive attitude and the fire to pursue my goals) and physically (I've been working out daily). I also continue to be a great dad to my three boys.
I would venture to say that this turnaround might never have occurred were it not for the tough times I've been through.
Thanks for this opportunity. I appreciate it.

In reading the Real Estate 101 text with the foreword by Donald Trump, I became amazed at the fact that just in the resent past New York has had a different persona. The persona non greta feeling of the New Yorker was last century. Mr. Donald Trump has been effective in his businesses and real estate ventures. The chance to make changes is viable with the housing industry down and the economic changes in the banking world.
The text refers one to read the book The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley, Ph. D. and William D. Danko, Ph. D. This book is a guide line to becoming wealth. The reader should follow the suggestions and see the transformation take place.
I do recommend that both books be bought and read frequently for personal gain. The stock program that CNBC has covering was the market flow of ups and down on the Wall Street Market. More than a week ago they had Warn Bennett on the program. The stocks in the back ground where going up and the talk was that the Market was at the all time bottom. How I wonder how that was. The future is not for any to know. The show was titled "The Billionaire Next Door." This was so close to the topic I had recently studied. The guest was saying it was time to draw a line in the sand. He was able to out fox the one present and had many a word of advice. The wit of a rich man can over come many. The deeds of a good business man can make him wealth.
The fact that Mr. Donald Trump works real estate and has happy workers and good deals makes one reassured that this type of business is sound. The future will bring many deals of wealth to many people. The real estate that is sold will go to who need homes. This is making America right again. I have a motto "Bye land in America, you will not go wrong."
The positive thinking and outlook that the texts give is something almost forgotten in this day and age. The future history books may note Mr. Donald Trump as the businessman that got America Dreaming of reachable goals again, I hope so. The goals I have set and the dreams I have now are much more than before reading the texts. Thank you, Mr. Trump. R. Faccone.

Mr. Trump
Thank you for this opportunity and for your efforts to share your big experience with us.
I have read many of your books and I learned great things about the business you excel in and I found many applications in real life. My field is not related with real estate but I try to learn from your experience in order to improve my mentality and my "I can "attitude.
I know that this new book has many valuable things and I hope I will get one directly from the source!

I believe that I deserve a copy of your book because I am a persistent person who does not let things get in my way. I have been married to a wonderful man for 14 years next month. We have two beautiful boys who we are setting an example that without an education you will not get far in life. I have been unable to work for a few years now because of a herniated disc in my low back but I am continuing my schooling online. I have a dream of owning my own business. I have accomplished an Associates Degree in Accounting. I will take all business suggestions that will help me get where I want to be. I thank you for the opportunity to be one of the many who will receive one of your books.

SR

I'm buying the book anyway, but to get an autographed copy would be fantastic! In the past three years I have really dedicated myself to learning the secrets of growing wealth and taking educated risks. I realize now that it's so important to receive a continuing education throughout one's life from experts who are willing to share. Most of them are, but never get asked. I'm also happy to report that my "net worth" has gone up substantially even though the money I earn at my business has remained the same. The Wealth Builder's Blueprint got me on my way and I'm still moving forward. Thanks for spending your time helping us.

Mr. Trump,

I don't deserve a signed first edition of your new book because I haven't earned it. You have been my silent mentor for 25 years and I have every one of your books in first edition beginning with "The Art of the Deal". I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your guidance and motivation.

This isn't the first recession I have survived, it's actually the third. I believe your philosophy that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. I continue to THINK BIG in the midst of the financial mayhem because I know that it is the entrepreneurs like us that always pull our great country out of the mud by the bootstraps. We did it before and we will do it again, and we will come out of this stronger and wiser.

My business today is thriving because I am focused on helping start-up companies open their doors. Most of my clients are honest hard-working Americans who have cashed out what's left of their 401K and are using the money to start new retail businesses. If I can contribute to the entire nation overcoming this recession, as it has every other time we have been in recession, then that is really Thinking Big.

I have earned everything I have. I don't want anything I haven't earned. I already have a first edition of you new book and it is an awesome read just like every book you've written.

Thanks for being a terrific mentor to me, even though you didn't know you were.

God bless you and your family. God bless the United States of America, the greatest country in the world.

Bryan Hull
Richardson, TX

Mr. Trump
I'm a champion because of my never quit, never say die attitude. By the time I was 24 I owned a successful utility construction company. My company was becoming one of the fastest growing and well know construction company in our area. When the housing market crashed, so did work for our company. So by the time that I was 27 I had lost everything. Because of you and my entrepreneurial spirit I'm bouncing back and am on track building another successful business. I've also been able to carry this attitude over and am teaching the kids that I coach in baseball, we have an extremely successful team.

Mr. Trump
I believe a champion lies within a person's character, personality and ethics. I've owned my own small business about 20 years. Most of the time making a decent living with it. Lately sales are not as easy as they used to be. In the easy years sales weren't hard to do. Since 911 I've bought a franchise, acquired 2 competitors and bought my own office building. Sales are tough now, renters are moving out and because of sticking to it, getting up every day and dressing for work no matter the circumstances I'm still standing. We are moving our mortgages to a different bank this month and was told "no problem, we know you". When recessions come we choose not to participate. I thought when I was younger I would have all the answers when I turned 50. I will be 57 this year and still don't have all the answers except I still have my character, personality and ethics and circumstances are dictating changes to the way we do business but I don't let circumstances keep me down. I'm still working and making the effort to win. I keep on learning and probably will never have all the answers but I have your books, CD's, DVDs as well as an ex military toughness to let the doom and gloomers get to me and make me quit.
Thanks for the Apprentice too it's a winner.
Jeff

I am a champion because though I have faced many setbacks in my life, I am still determined to achieve my goals and live to see Africans change their mindset concerning leadership. I stand out because I am going to see to it that in 20years time Africa will no longer be known as the Dark Continent but rather the Love Continent. I am going to educate all Africans about purpose and leadership and make them realise that until we respect ourselves and our fellow Africans, we will never gain respect from the rest of the world. I am going to make Africans aware that all that we need to do away with poverty and poverty related issues is within us and we must start now, each one of us, to make use of the power we have inside of us for the betterment of our continent, not the oppression of our people. I am going to encourage the love of knowledge among Africans so that they may stop looking up to others to solve their problems but seek information and take action. I am passionate about seing my people do well, therefore I am a champion.

What makes a champion?

Is it someone who wins a race, receives a promotion, gets a raise or a pat on the back; someone who psychosocially believes they are a champion or has been raised to believe they are champion, may be someone who being successful in making a lot of money by luck, or someone who flaunts a false sense of worth?

To me being a champion, is being able to achieve everything they set out to do, even under the most adverse circumstances, from having nothing.

After a severe accident in the military, where I broke my neck (now the only walking quad in Australia), and acquired severe closed head injury, leaving me with no short term memory, I have fought a fight like a true champion.

I have studied law/economics degree and am studying 3 Masters degrees at once. Remember, all without a short term memory.

I don’t complain, nor put myself on a pedestal; but am so proud and grateful to have the opportunity to walk and fulfil my dreams.

I know I should win a copy of Donald's latest book simply because he is my inspiration, a role model I want to follow. I am a language instructor and have a language school in Brazil. As everybody knows, Brazil is a developing country offering lots of opportunities for those who are ready to accept the challenge and make things happen instead of waiting for the government or the others to do things for them.
Since I had the chance to know more about Trump's work, I have become a more informed person and started to invest on my financial education becasue I know that the real world is not a bed of roses, specially for girls who have to break an extra barrier that is to enter the business world.
So, I deserve a copy of this new masterpiece because I have set more challenges for myself and have planned carefully my next steps and the book will certainly help me reach my goals.
Thank you, Mr Trump, for sharing your knowledge with the whole world!

Firstly Mr. Trump, you are a big inspiration for me.

Coming from Britain I always preferred your original apprentice show to ours, and its the only TV series I've ever watched from start to finish, so much useful info in every episode.

I believe I am rising to the champion challenge, after seeing the meltdown here in the US, I have taken a job at a university to provide some steady income and massive educational opportunities, I have also saved $10,000 so far to invest in real estate (on my present $12ph salary I think that's good accumulation for 18 months).

I started a small business during 2008 providing IT services, and this June I will celebrate my first year of operations, carrying no debt, and with a broadening base of customers.

I try to keep to your think big philosophy, and I have also used the hit back 10 times harder where necessary.

I have 3 Trump ties which Im very fond of, every job interview I have been to I wore one, and every time I have been offered the position, may be coincidence or superstition, but that's the only change to my wardrobe from 2 years ago where I had a lower success rate with interviews (although I hadn't read all of your books then either).

I have now read all of your published books to 2008, and I keep up with the Trump blog and audio clips, I would love to have a signed copy of the new book.

Thanks and keep up the great work!

First thing first. Now when you have challenged us, the unrecognized group of champions, so its my duty to jump in and prove myself. The reason is simple that the chanllenge is from The Champion of Champions. This is best opportunity of getting recognition with a proof from him and it is like going through round of appraisal and seeing where I stand.

I would like to keep things simple and below is list of reasons that why I think I should be one among your list of champs.

1) I have very clear vision about my life, my family, my country and about the society I am living in.
2) I started my life during my childhood when my family of 6 was living in a 10X10 sqft room for nearly 20 years.
3) Supported my secondary school studies by supplying door-to-door milk, working in motors binding factory. My day started 5am working till at 11pm. This is when I was less than 18.
4) Worked hard, pushed my limits, aimed high and achieved whatever I dreamt of.
5) I had an opportunity to live a comfortable life in tropical paradise, i.e. Singapore where I got Permanent Resident status and had a nice job. I felt I need more money to fulfill my dreams and choose to work in US.
6) After working US for couple of years where I earned good money. But I realized that I am not able to justify living away from friends, families and country.
7) I chosen hard path again, came to Bangalore in India working here again as Manager in reputed IT consultancy firm. Along with job, trying to up bring my family, friends and influencing social circle I have.
8) Joined Eco-Eye initiative, helping poor kids with regular charity.
9) Running a website www.india.co.in with couple of others sites as my time-pass.
10) Still I am not satisfied, pushing my limits further and aiming higher and I know I time is not far for me to see myself in mirror and smile again.

Mr. Trump,

I am a champion because I achieve what I set out to accomplish and don’t let set backs keep me from pursuing my next goals. The biggest thing is I won’t quit. When I was in the military, my company sent another soldier to sniper school rather than me. He quit because the school was tough. I was outside the First Sergeant’s office the day that happened and remember hearing what was shouted behind closed doors. I won’t reveal that here since it would turn the board R rated. The next time our company got a sniper school slot, my Platoon Sergeant fought for me to be the one to go. The day before I left, my First Sergeant asked if I was ready. I told him yes. He said, "You’re not going to quit are you?" I replied, "Hell no, I’ll come back a sniper."

Thirty-three people were there on day one to compete to get into the school Thirteen of us made it. Out of those thirteen, four dropped out, and nine graduated as advanced marksmen, and only three graduated as U.S. Army Snipers. I was one of those three.

I’ve taken this "Sniper" attitude to accomplish many other things. My first semester in college, I took a large load including honors classes. I was asked, "Don’t you think that is too much?" My reply, "I’m a sniper, I can do it." I got straight A’s.

This same "Champion" attitude helped me achieve my 4th degree black belt in Hapkido in Korea, the country the art originated in. (I lived and trained there and am now writing a book about it) It helped me earn my law degree. It helped me write my first book and six instructional DVDs with many more on the way.

However, not everything I have set out to do has always worked. That’s life. You may remember a few years back when I wrote you about a book I wrote, "Lessons From the Apprentice." My agent in New York and I were trying to get it published, but you and Mr. Burnett came out with a book of the same name and publishers did not want another. That’s how the publishing business works sometimes. As a "Champion," I posted what I wrote on the Internet so people could still benefit from what I wrote and told them to buy the book you and Mr. Burnett put out as well. Many people have enjoyed the lessons I wrote about the show.

Right now, I’m in a transition period where I am working toward leaving the practice of law to pursue more writing, speaking, and teaching opportunities. I’m going to follow my passion, and as a Champion, I will succeed. Thank you for your motivating books and programs that are a great boost. As Zig Zigler said, "People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing that’s why we recommend it daily." Living your passion and reading positive books keeps that motivation going. Thank You and I look forward to reading an autographed copy of "Think Like a Champion."

Alain Burrese
1915 McDonald Ave.
Missoula, MT 59801
www.burrese.com

Simple,

I love what I do!!! I have a creative mindset and sometimes try to think outside the box. I always keep a positive outlook on things. I'm determined, dedicated, and focused. I don,t like to loose. Not to mention that I love to help people. And guess what if I don't win this book, It's ok. I will be signing up for some addtional classes in the future. Knowledge is key.

David Rivero

Hello Donald

I´m a champion because that is why I have determine my self to be, it is a decision not a result, it is an attitude not a success, I´m a champion not because I overcome obstacles or endure challenges, I surpass them because I am a champion, you have proven to be a champion rising from nothing over and over again, the fuel that drives a champion cannot run out, its not external, our necessity is not to be the best, but to give the best on every change we get makes us keep on going, we may not win on the first try but we will not stop because we are champions, succeeding will not make us champions, we succeeded because of our determination, there is no end to our race, because the race itself motivates us and we will race it until the last breath with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind and with all our strength.

Dear, Donald Trump

I would love to possibly recieve your new book and here is my reasons why.

I consider myself a champion because I turned my whole life around and continue to do so. About 5 years ago I was at the lowest point in my life and definitely didn't consider myself a champion. My parents divorced that year, 9/11 happened, I was doing badly in school, I was causing my body physical harm, and I got to the point of suicide up to almost taking my life. The only thing that saved me was God and the possiblities of being in my mind what was a champion. From that moment on I was spiritually reborn and I guess you could say as a champion. Next thing I was in the top of my classes all the way to graduation. Working a part time job on the side and enjoying life more then I ever had before. Through the tremendous pain and set backs I learned to really appreciate life. To this very date I continue to strive to be a champion because I don't like to consider myself always as a champion. I like to work hard and have fun much similar to your work ethic. Donald both of us are champions in some way or form and since I knew who you were I fell in love with your character and work persona. I would benefit greatly in my quest for education and a better understanding of your stories to be awarded a copy of your book. I know the book is going to be the best.

Sincerely,

Lawrence W. Brennan

Your biggest fan.

Life begins at 50! I posted that on my dest when I turned 50. Then again at 60. I expect to do it four more times. Time will tell. I have decades to go before I sleep - that is my plan anyway.

I began a new life at 50. It continues to grow and reward us. When you love what you do, do it with passion, and meet adversity with the same passion you love with to turn it into an advantage and lesson you need to learn, even more doors open up. Sometimes you have to slam other doors shut.

I'm inspired by what you've done, Mr. Trump, and the plans I read you have for the future. I like your direct approach to everything. I like your commitment to loyalty and quality. Because you expect the best out of yourself you can expect it out of others. You make the world a better place.

I deserve an autographed copy of your book because I also expect and appreciate loyalty and quality and want that connection with the people I do business with and call my friend. An autographed copy of your book will represent that kind of connection between two men living their lives passionately to the best of their abilities.

What's in the signature of a living person is a mark from a hand that has lived a life with more heart break and joy, more done and yet to do, more planned and hoped for than will ever be fully known or realized, and more of the best yet to come that if done very very very well will stand the test of time for generations.

That's what I see in your signature Donald Trump. Your personal legacy to me and why I deserve it!

Mike Michelozzi

Dear Mr Trump

I think i deserve to be the owner of you signed book because I am from Pakistan the under devoloping country facing economic crises lack of business oppertunities and law and volatile law and order situation .

I am from a middle class family but never thaught its a weakness for me I have completed my BCS from a average university and done some technical certification through which I became a technical instructor through which I have got a good Job and I kept on teaching technical classes at my home in the start then after getting a godo name and reputation as an instructor.I took loan from the bank to start my own technical institue for technical training.

Which did not suceeded very high but I managed to pay off my loans and then I have upgraded my Technical Certification by owning my own Cisco CCIE lab and today I am CCIE one of the most respected and highly paid ceritifcation in technical industry I am earning 3 Million Rupees a year which is around 40,000$ a year as a consultant but this did not ended my thirst for becoming financially big and independent I have started investing in real state and purchased my own house and rented it out through the rent I am paying off the home loand and making my money work for me .

I have a thirst for contineous growth where sky is not the limit

Faisal Ghaus
The ne

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Why do I think of myself as a champion? Well I graduated high school back in 1988. I spent several years trying to figure out what I wanted to be, I wound up taking a job driving an 18 wheeler in 1996. I have been a truck driver since then with only 4 companies. The general feeling among some Americans is that truckers are low class and ignorant. My truck driving has put food on my table and a roof over my head but in the last 2 years that really hasn't been enough. Although I do take advantage of as many webcasts and books and videos that Trump University puts before me I felt that with my new marriage and a 12 year old step daughter I had to step up and lead by example. I can't tell my daughter to finish what you start or to get good grades if I wasn't going to do it myself. So last june(2008) at 38 years old and no money I enrolled in college. Its an online technical college where I am pursuing my degree in IT systems Administration. I am now in my fourth semester,I have made the Deans list and I currently have a 4.0 GPA. By showing my daughter that if I can do it at my age then she can do it to, well she too has made the Honor roll at her school. I am a champion to her and my wife.

I believe I am a champion because I have just lost a job of 19 years making $70,000 a year. I have not yet started working. That can play with your mind on a negitive way, but I am not listening to the bad news out there. I believe that with the right mindset and proper education I can over come any challenge out there. I know times are tough but Champions will come back when they are behind. Thiers a saying" As a man thinketh so is he". In closing I am a champion because I have the right mindset and getting the proper education and writting a plan to my success, having short term, mid term and long term goals to accomplish.

Thanks Peter Snell

i´m so happy!!! yesterday i received my book!!!! and YES is amazing.

i am recommending to my staff here in Costa Rica at www.dyncr.com

I JUST GOT LAID OFF YESTERDAY FOR THE 2ND TIME IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS FROM AN ACCOUNTING FIRM DUE TO LACK OF WORK/SLOW ECONOMY (SAME REASON FOR THE FIRST LAYOFF)...GOT A MORTGAGE AND A PILE OF BILLS TO PAY...I NEEDED THE INSPIRATION TO KEEP GOING FORWARD, THANKS MR. TRUMP...I WILL RISE TO THE OCCASSION LIKE A TRUE CHAMPION AND KEEP AT IT!

I deserve this signed book by you, Donald J Trump, because I am a winner. I deserve this book because I will listen to what you say and apply it to my life and my vision for my life. Everyday. I will use the wisdom in your words and life experience to help propel our world closer to what it can be. I am the type of person you want to help as I will help others reach their goals as well. I will give back to the world.

Hi, Donald Trump!!!!

My name is ARTHUR WYCKOFF.

!We have never met. While I think it should be up to other people to tell someone they are a champion; I would love to have 1 of your signed books. I have been a volunteer at the LA Times Book Fair, since it was started!!! During that time, I have developed a neat , signed Mystery Paperback collection, due to the fact that I like mysteries, and they are cheaper to buy. Perhaps your sending me a signed copy of your wisdoms, could force me into starting a new collection of signed investment books.

Perhaps you could go online,see what authors are attending; and then-----I would be willing to stand in line to get a signed copyp of whomever you would wish, and -----mail it to you. Obviously, there is
probably not much that I could offer you in a "trade;"but, certainly, as someone who appreciates value, u can see that I am not just about taking, but wish to offer something aS WELL!!!!!
Let me know if i may help you with collecting some of your favorite authors;and, in turn ---how about sending me yours,signed!!!!!!

A buddy,
arhurwyckoff@yahoo.com

Why am i a champion...?Never thought about this but i always knew that i am a champion.The tough challenges that i had in my life i passed them and moved forward because I had a champion mentality.Always find a solution for everything no matter what it is your health, business, relationship, famly there is always a way of doing thinngs differently than others and thats why champions always win.I always motivate myself because lots of time in my life i was down but just having this mentality of winning this challenge no matter what this is a motivation for me.When i am down i always thank God of being in this position because being there i learn a lot, this is a good experience for me, being there its a diferent feeling and you see the world and things different.Champion is always a winner in tough moments.Having the right mentality and not just thinking of doing things but making actions thats what is the champion and thats why they are getting amazing results.Champions think and act different they rise to the challenges.Being a champion its not a title being a champion its a the way of thinking and acting and thats how you gonna win NO MATTER what.

Dear Mr. Trump,

I was extremely shy/introverted in school - could not even interact confidently on a one to one meeting. From then on, I have...

> Became one of the best dancers in college and came first in many competitions.

> Received applause/appreciations for my various presentations in class.

> Am part of my family business which has entered its 60th year recently. My elder brother expired 3 years ago and since then iv faced various challenges, set backs while running the family business.

> Today I am handing various departments in the company - circulation, administration, technology, websites, advertising sales, investment, etc.

I am 25 years old and am ready to face all the challenges ahead of me and to be a champion. You have been a constant inspiration for me and I would surely make the most of your new book. Looking forward to your signed copy.

Thank You,
Manan Kotak
India

I am a Champion because, at 18 years old, I am a working PR practitioner with nationwide clients. I am the first in my family to be attending college. I have been an entrepreneur since I was fifteen. This has been from my own hard work, as my parents are not rich or well-connected by any means. My family has been homeless three times, in fact. I am highly ambitious. Even though I am very young, I have been on television twice, on radio and podcasts three times, been on the cover of a local magazine, and mentioned in a couple dozen articles and blogs. I work hard to be noticed, and it's paying off. In fact, I need an internship for college, but I'm not looking for one. Know why? Because companies are approaching ME to ask me to be an intern!
I love your books, Mr. Trump. I have read all of them, including the Trump University series. They are absolutely fantastic and I always come away inspired. I can't wait to read this next one, regardless of who wins. Thank you for your time.

Well Mr Trump, it will be a pleasure to read your book, it will feel like reading you direct, in the name of your success story, and?

I too will say I got a piece of his downright good advise in a book I got from him direct! Almost as much a blessing as reading Barak Obama's " Audacity of Hope"

Have a blessed day Mr Trump, it will be swell to get a copy of your book, a real priviledge and an hour to get an email from you staff to get me to enter, thanks and stay blessed.

Helen

Dear Champion,
im not yet a champion because i think champions are people like u, champions are people who have great ideas or ambitions and make them happen!
But i have the ambition to become a champion, just as alexander the great sayd " There is nothing impossible to him who will try.".
I always want to be the best, a second place is like a loose to me, like u from "something to everything this is my way i want to go (run).
I signed book would be something very special to me, if i get it i will take care as i would do for a big diamond.
best regards from germany

First of all i would like to think that i'm a champion becouse my only chance is success after i throw myself in the world of "being my on boss" now i'm using your thichings and Mr Kyosay's to raise my educational level and do more for me and athers.

I believe that I can be a champion. Real estate is the way I want to go. I have bought many of your courses and books. Times are hard right now and this could be the very best time to go forward. I enjoy your books and will continue to go forward. Since I am not working now my plan is to go through all the course on a daily basis to achieve my goal.
Betty

lately I haven't been feeling like a champion - I think of the champion that was...$100,000 (+) a year Vice President of Strategic Development caught up in the global meltdown...I allow myself to wallow in the self pity of what was and who I was instead if rejuvenating in the redevelopment and rebirth of what will be and what new champion will arise from the ashes of what was...Here's to champions - there are no past champions - only champions if the spirit still resides in your heart!
Thanks,
Tim

Mr. Trump,
I’m writing you form Argentina, and I want to tell you some things. When I had 14 years old, I started to like business because of you. I saw the apprentice all those days and try to keep it with the worthily tips you gave. So I started to read your books. My first one was "How to be rich", and my last one a friend of the family brought it to me from the airport of china, "Trump Style Negotiation" by your friend Ross. All these years I have been succeed, and that I have to really thank you because you have been the spark of my business inspiration. Now with 17 years old, I keep studying for accountant and I hope to be succeeding like you. People, when they listen me talking about finance, economy, and where they have to take risk and where not, they trust in me, and they say that I know a lot like a person of 25 years old, and they have a surprise face when I tell them that I only have 17. I don’t know if I will win this book, but I think I’m a champion, in business and in life. When you are a champion, you don’t only win knowledge or wisdom, you win field in the life battlefield, and that will help you in future decisions you will make. I hope to be successful like you and who knows maybe overcome you - it’s a joke-. So, I really thank you about inspiring people to do business with heart and brain.
Waiting for an answer, I send you from Argentina a friendly hug.
Marcelo

Oh! Sorry about mistakes in English.

Champion?
It is easy to be a champion in big countries, but to be a champion in countries like I live in it happens hardly ever.
Reading about YOU Mr. Trump and YOUR live, family and career gives me directions on my ways to success.
I AM CHAMPION JUST BECAUSE OF MY LOVE, MY FAMILY, AND MY OTHER HALF!
JUST BECAUSE OF THEM I WANT TO BE IN ORDER TO MAKE THEM HAPPY AND GIVE EVERYTHING THAT THEY DESIRE!

Sandra

Dear Mr Trump,

Why do I think of myself as a Champion? There are days when I don't ! Without sounding negative as by nature I am not, these last two years have wiped out just about everything I have got thus far. (43 Years) Once I use to be able to make deals turn to gold, now days they turn to the waste product of a humoungous bull that has been over eating, I mean it is bad.

I know times are indeed tough but I just cannot seem to get there at the moment. You have millions of fans that follow your every word and breath and one of the things on "My Bucket List" is to meet you in person one day. You do a lot with Phil & Corrina Jones from New Zealand so that might be how it happens. To be able to watch your Apprentice series, watch you, listen to you online is amazing.

I will get my Mojo back soon, but it seems like an eternity at the moment.
As soon as there are some crumbs for the investment I will start re training, maybe with Phil and Richmastery in NZ but would love to read your new book and if I win a copied signed by you personally then that would be better than winning Lotto.
My challenges are not even close to how unfortunate some people are and while I have been working out what to do and how to do it next I have been giving to as many people that I can help as much as I can.

Thank you Mr Trump for this opportunity, thank you for being my greatest inspiration and I hope that you do get to read this, amongst all the millions of posts your staff must read, I pray mine will be one of the chosen ones.

Good Afternoon Mr. Trump and Blog Adm. Manager,

I consider myself a champ because:

- My "Y" is my family who are the number one reason for all this.
- I may fall but I find the way to get back on my stallion.
- I know to ask for help to the poeple that are able to help me.
- I've learned to listen and have learned from my mistakes. (I continue to learn every single day.)
- I've learned that there is no shame in saying the words "I don't know, show me how please".
- I've develop a passion for personal development to be a more successful entrepreneur.
- I love to help and share the knowledge even though sometimes people won't listen.
- I went to the top, came down(can you see me?), and I'm now rebuilding a stronger "me" for myself and my loved ones.
- I know who the real boss is and that is God. I am not a religious fanatic, but I found God very quiclky in tough times.

I LOVE YOUR BOOK VENTURE WITH ROBERT KIYOSAKY "WHY WE WANT YOU TO BE RICH" It is one of the best books I've ever read. Thank You for sharing the knowledge, God bless!
Last but not least, with all your respect, I think Ivanka is so beautiful.

I hope I will WIN one of your autographed books and hope to have lunch with you some day!

All the best!
Marcos
www.ACHAMIZO.com

Dear Mr. Trump!
First of all let me express you my deep respect, because I consider a great achievement your contribution to the development of modern real estate business. And personally for me, you are a wonderful example of a self-promotion ?.

I am a Champion! First of all, because I live in harmony with myself, I am in love and loved by a very nice man, with whom we try everyday to make life of each other happier and easier! So everyday I get up with a smile and warm feelings in my heart (these days all the feelings are amplified thanks to the blossom of spring trees near my house ?).
Also I work at the position, which allows me to raise constantly the professional level, make really good money for my boss and myself, and have time for my personal life.
I am a champion, because in the nearest future I’m going to buy my firs flat in the capital of Ukraine, and It’ll be the flat of my dream! I am proud of myself and think that I go in the right direction, because in 26 I managed to get everything by myself never asking for money of my parents.
Have some rather interesting investment ideas and gonna to realize them this year, so think it’ll be useful to read your book.

Have a nice day!
Kate
Kiev, Ukraine

Mr. Trump, my HERO, I deserve a copy of your new book, "THINK LIKE A CHAMPION," because I AM a champion! I have always possessed an inner-champion, but never fully realized it until I read your book, "ART OF THE DEAL." Remember me? The nut-job? Turns out... I'm not crazy at all... just a little smarter than most people, so they all think I'm the lunatic.

It has been a very gradual ascent from rock bottom, but I am improving and getting luckier every day! I learn a great deal from watching CELEBRITY APPRENTICE, but your book would really help me to reach higher and further!

Please forward my copy to: Elizabeth A. Rizzo
2491 SE Sidonia St.
Port St. Lucie, FL 34952

See ya at the top!

Gratefully yours,

Liz Rizzo

Mr. Trump, my HERO, I deserve a copy of your new book, "THINK LIKE A CHAMPION," because I AM a champion! I have always possessed an inner-champion, but never fully realized it until I read your book, "ART OF THE DEAL." Remember me? The nut-job? Turns out... I'm not crazy at all... just a little smarter than most people, so they all think I'm the lunatic.

It has been a very gradual ascent from rock bottom, but I am improving and getting luckier every day! I learn a great deal from watching CELEBRITY APPRENTICE, but your book would really help me to reach higher and further!

Please forward my copy to: Elizabeth A. Rizzo
2491 SE Sidonia St.
Port St. Lucie, FL 34952

See ya at the top!

Gratefully yours,

Liz Rizzo

hi ,again.I was curious.U notified me to let me know that my challenge comment was approved to be posted; and to view it.Well----that turned out to be a real challenge, as it was not there!!!!!I was wondering if a mistake had been made; or, worse-----someone played a joke, posting under a # assigned to me, rather than my name, as I did!!!!!!

Could u please check for me and let me know???I posted under the name arthur wyckoff, about a possible signed book trade. I certainly do not want any posts attributed to my membership , that I did not make. I am doing this at a public facility, and there are a lot of games always being played by the techno
people!!!!

sincerely,
arthurwyckoff@yahoo.com

Why do I think I'm a champion--and why I deserve to be singled out?

Great question, I think everyone has a little champion inside themselves. Key is being able to find it!

I am a champion because I continually strive to be a better person, friend, relative, co-worker, teammate, and fiancé (soon-to-be husband).

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Justin

Hello Mr. Trump,

It’s a pleasure to participate in your challenge. While I agree that these are challenging times, I personally get one heck of a motivation out of them! These times don't come around very often and what a better opportunity could we get to learn and get stronger?

Being born in Soviet Union, thinking like a champ was not an option to me, it was rather a necessity, a need to survive. I am sure we all know how hard it was to exist for people in those times, no need for details here. However, the kind of life back then is what kept me motivated and pushed for a better life.

I applied for an exchange program at the U.S. Embassy to participate in one year high school exchange program and failed at my first attempt, due to not knowing sufficiently enough English language. Did I give up? Heck no! I spent the next year studying English day and night, speaking to foreigners (at my own risk) and practicing my skills and sure enough, I was one of the lucky chosen ones to study in U.S. Yet, I had bigger plans that graduating from an American high school. My dream was to be accepted into a college! Without any financial support from my parents, I applied to a few universities around the country and hoping to receive some scholarships was accepted to every single one of them. Of course paying a yearly 30K out-of-state tuition was out of my reach, so I settled on a small state university in Kansas, barely passing by in the first year on financial help from scholarships and grants. While one in my place would probably drop out of school by the end of first year, due to the lack of financial support, I in turn, worked like a horse between and after the classes washing dishes in the cafeteria and working as a computer lab assistant. All for one reason - save money for my second year of studies. In the end, thinking like a Champ, I graduated from a university with a help from scholarships, earnings from my work and credit cards, yes credit cards. Well, what were the next steps that I took? Sure enough going back home was not in plans. By the then I wanted to earn an MBA degree. And, the only way to do it was to put my bachelor degree in use and work, work, work. I got a job as a Manager Trainee in a service industry and made enough money to save and pay off my credit card debts. As I was getting ready to go back to school for my Masters degree, my life took a sharp turn and I was granted a graduate assistantship. Alas, financial freedom! Best years of college were passing by in no time and I was looking forward to graduation. I decided once and for all that going back home will never be an option for me. And how could I after spending nearly 8 years living the States and experiencing first hand what a true freedom of speech and a democracy is?

I applied to a special Canadian government program designed for high skilled immigrants and was granted a permanent residence in Canada. Had I not done what I described above and proved that I am a go-getter type of person refusing to give up, I truly doubt Canada would have any interest in me. Right now I work in the oil and gas field and although I am just in the beginning of my professional career, I have solid plans on making it to a CEO level at some point in future. I believe my record of setting goals and accomplishing them speaks for itself.

Going back to the opening of my letter, even in times like these today I’m still thinking like a Champion. How? By thinking Big! I focus on my future plans while diligently carrying out everyday tasks. I love my work and do everything that is expected of me to the best of my ability. While lay offs is out of my reach, so what, it’s not the first time I’d be knocked down to me knees. Importantly, I have the strength of getting up and even if it’ll set me back a year or two, one day in future I’ll be the CEO.

Yours truly,

Mr. A. Jukov

Dear Mr. Trump:

With reference to your challenge of why I am a champion and why I should receive a book as posted on the Trump University blog on 4/22/2009:

* I need more! The Trump Empire is tremendous and provides an amazing depth of opportunities to global society.

* I am a busy and successful parent with ideas that are greatly expanded after following your business thinking.

* My kids and the world around me will tune-in and notice the amazing change that is brought about by studying the resources provided by you and your associates at Trump University.

Thank you for this challenge!

Sincerely
Jeff

Dear Mr Trump,

Thank you for the opportunity to aquire another one of your books for my growing library. I feel that I am a champion because I never give up. I may be bruised for awhile but I continue to grasp for my dream of becoming financially able to help family and those less fortunate. I raised my son as a single mom sometimes working 3 jobs with the help of family and friends. He was a challenge having been diagnosed with both Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity. At the same time I continued to take courses at the local Community College. Well, a lifetime later my son is 31, married with 3 boys and a few credits short of his BS in Business Management. I stuck to it and finally completed my AA after 30 years and then continued on to Post Secondary Medical Assistant certification.

My husband and I started investing in real estate 5 years ago...did it all wrong but still made a decent profit. Last February I started attending Trump University to learn from the best and I am also 3 credits away from my National PHP Certification through the Central Florida Chapter of REIA.

Thank you for supporting those of us that have a very strong desire to succeed. I know I CAN DO IT!!

Linda W.
Melbourne, FL

Mr. Trump, my HERO, I deserve a copy of your new book, "THINK LIKE A CHAMPION," because I AM a champion! I have always possessed an inner-champion, but never fully realized it until I read your book, "ART OF THE DEAL."

It has been a very gradual ascent from rock bottom, but I am improving and getting luckier every day! I learn a great deal from watching CELEBRITY APPRENTICE, but your book would really help me to reach higher and further! Thank you, ever so much, for the guidance!

Please forward my copy to: Elizabeth A. Rizzo
2491 SE Sidonia St.
Port St. Lucie, FL 34952

See ya at the top!

Gratefully yours,

Liz Rizzo

Mr. Trump, my HERO, I deserve a copy of your new book, "THINK LIKE A CHAMPION," because I AM a champion! I have always possessed an inner-champion, but never fully realized it until I read your book, "ART OF THE DEAL."

It has been a very gradual ascent from rock bottom, but I am improving and getting luckier every day! I learn a great deal from watching CELEBRITY APPRENTICE, but your book would really help me to reach higher and further! Thank you, ever so much, for the guidance!

Please forward my copy to: Elizabeth A. Rizzo
2491 SE Sidonia St.
Port St. Lucie, FL 34952

See ya at the top!

Gratefully yours,

Liz Rizzo

Mr. Trump, my HERO, I deserve a copy of your new book, "THINK LIKE A CHAMPION," because I AM a champion! I have always possessed an inner-champion, but never fully realized it until I read your book, "ART OF THE DEAL."

It has been a very gradual ascent from rock bottom, but I am improving and getting luckier every day! I learn a great deal from watching CELEBRITY APPRENTICE, but your book would really help me to reach higher and further! Thank you, ever so much, for the guidance!

Please forward my copy to: Elizabeth A. Rizzo
2491 SE Sidonia St.
Port St. Lucie, FL 34952

See ya at the top!

Gratefully yours,

Liz Rizzo

I am a champion because I persevered for over twenty years to regain my physical health after suffering from a devastating medical malpractice in 1984. I always knew that somehow I would succeed and, despite making many mistakes along the way, I incorporated many of Mr. Trump's teachings to become a very successful salesman for the BBB of Vancouver Island. Additionally, my health improved to the point where I now run over 100 miles per week and will be running my second marathon in Vancouver on May 3. I am also a low handicap golfer.

Mr. Trump, many thanks for your inspiration!!

Eric Smith
3290B Doncaster Drive
Victoria, BC, Canada V8P 3V5
250-208-5135
eric@vi.bbb.org
ericsmithseminars@yahoo.com

Mr. Trump, my HERO, I deserve a copy of your new book, "THINK LIKE A CHAMPION," because I AM a champion! I have always possessed an inner-champion, but never fully realized it until I read your book, "ART OF THE DEAL."

It has been a very gradual ascent from rock bottom, but I am improving and getting luckier every day! I learn a great deal from watching CELEBRITY APPRENTICE, but your book would really help me to reach higher and further! Thank you, ever so much, for the guidance!

Please forward my copy to: Elizabeth A. Rizzo
2491 SE Sidonia St.
Port St. Lucie, FL 34952

See ya at the top!

Gratefully yours,

Liz Rizzo

Mr. Trump,
You appear to consider it worthwhile to invest in people. I hope to prove to be a worthwhile investment. I am teachable and have 54 years behind me so I have experience which can hold the wisdom investment.
I believe one thread in the rope of success is to surround oneself with those who are successful. You have walked that road. I have worked very hard all my life, raised 4 children mostly alone and now they are raised and I am free to continue my business life. I have been the rock of success in the family – now I want to turn to others to learn to find success keys in the business world.
Last but definitely not least, I could buy the book. But I desire for you to personally invest in me. I want to feel like someone... somewhere.... sees worth in me. Worth enough to invest...a book, signed and given.

Respectfully,

Bonnie Scherger
Sugar Home Care, LLC

Hi Mr. Trump, Thank you for this opportunity to write to you. I saw you on Larry King last week and I really valued what you had to say about seller financing and also your feedback on the economy. When you talked about your book, I thought how great it would be to read it. Actually, this is the second time I'm writing to you, as I started your Real Estate Course about two and a half years ago, and my Coach singled me out along with a few others to write to you personally about my circumstances. I'm living in Vienna, Austria, and ran into some roadblocks here in trying to get things going.....things like not being able to get a credit at my bank here where I have had an account for over 20 years, having some people laugh in my face because I'm a woman over 40 years old who is working for a brighter future, among other things. Yes, I've had some roadblocks here but have kept believing that I'll get thru it all somehow. I don't know if I deserve an autographed copy of your book, Mr. Trump, because I still haven't make an investment yet. My Coach is very encouraging. He still has faith in me in over-coming these many roadblocks. Am I a Champion? Gosh, I don't know. I don't want to tell you a sob story, as that's not where I'm at. It's just that in the meantime, while I've been locked into a low paying job, have been trying to make some connections and to keep learning in the Real Estate Course, I also had a personal roadblock to deal with. A breast tumor was found about 18 months ago, and I had surgery followed by radiation. I'm one of the lucky women, Mr. Trump, because my tumor was caught in the early stage. I felt my life come to a standstill and I felt like I'd never catch up in the Real Estate Course, and thru it all my Coach kept encouraging me not to worry because I'd get thru this too. Reading your Blog during those challenging months gave me a lot of positive energy. I don't know if I'm a Champion, Mr. Trump, but I do know that I'm a woman who has faced enormous roadblocks and I feel blessed in having a second chance in Life now. I am a woman who is rebuilding her life and is moving on, and I hope that I can encourage other women to do the same. I would love to have an autographed copy of your book, Mr. Trump. If not, I plan to buy it next time I'm back home anyway. It's an honor being a part Trump University, and in being able to learn from you and from your expert team. Thank you for your time, Mr. Trump. Best Wishes, Miriam Linkimer

Mr Trump,
I've been reading your new book, " Think like a Champion" and find it very uplifting! I've got a full time job, and am also a full time Realtor. The Real Estate market has been down for the past couple years now. I retired from my one job after being there 23 years, and was planning on nothing but selling Real Estate. I've got one daughter getting out of college this May with a degree in English. I have a Daughter and Son in private high schools, and I was getting very tired. I returned to my job I retired from with the same pay, and drawing my retirement checks. I was just getting by in Real Estate from month to month. I picked up your book " Think Big and Kick Ass". then I read "Rich Dad Poor Dad", and "Why we want You to be Rich". I just can't put the books down once I start reading. I now have a NEW view on things, and am ready to move ahead in Real Estate. I currently have 5 buyers I'm working with, and I owe a lot to you for redirecting my outlook!!!
Thanks
Charlie Gibson
Louisville, Ky.

Imagine. Dare. Succeed!

I will share a secret with you but I hope that it will stay between us!
I am just so imperfect! Every time when my tired boyfriend comes from work and I greet him with a cup of tea with honey, every time when I get a satisfactory, big raise, every time when we sign a successful contract with an international company and even when I win next Cashflow competition I always open your book, Mr. Trump, and hear a voice in my head – "Is that all you can show? You could do it better! Don’t make me laugh!". What happens then? Then I think bigger, play bigger, and I want to be bigger. Championship is a way. The way, I have chosen, too. I am a champion because I never escape being aware of a presence of troubles. Every fall brings invaluable experience and after every fall I can stand up and go. For me, there is no way back – every day I find a new route or a sign post – visitors from Japan, I want to learn a new language – a contest, I want to prove that I am worth the prize. A mixture of persistence, passion, patience and enjoyment makes me the one who would use knowledge which your book contains to create what other people are only dreaming of.
Thinking of the best and working for the best Anna.

Good afternoon,

In response to this challenge, I would like to submit the following which outlines why I am a champion.

4 Years ago, I was working as a contractor for a private company supporting government efforts overseas. On numerous occasions over a period of 2 years, I voiced my opinion as to how certain "company policies" could be improved to increase overall efficiency in many areas, only to find myself brushed off by upper management. Having had enough, I began looking into the possibility of creating my own company. Many so-called "friends" thought I was out of my mind wanting to start up a company in Afghanistan. However, I was convinced that there was an immerging market in that area.

Over a period of 9-10 months, I researched this possibility thoroughly via interviews of entrepreneurs, internet research and by reading several books; starting with Mr. Trump's "Entrepreneurship 101". I set up a meeting with a friend of mine who runs a successful multi-media company in Afghanistan, in order to seek his opinion about my idea. During the hour long meeting, I conveyed my ideas in a clear and professional manner which led to my friend offering to finance part of my company. On 17 April, 2008 we officially began operations.

1 year has gone by since the creation of my company, and I am proud to announce that we have generated 1.9 million dollars in revenue during our first year of operations.

Having had the courage to leave a high paying position in order to attempt launching a company in Afghanistan... and SUCCEED, is the reason why I am a champion.

Very respectfully,

Jim Bergeron

I'm a champion in the making because I persevere through difficult circumstances... I developed my business while going through cancer treatment, ran my first 5k race less than a year of being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in my leg (a 6 in. by 4 in. mass all behind and beside my knee) when no one thought that I'd even be able to run again, and in this challenging economy I help individuals find jobs (often pro bono) when they feel that they are at the end of their rope. I believe that adversity has built who I am and because of this, I'm stronger than I look like I should be. I may not be a champion just yet, but I am well on my way and will become one by helping/giving back to others.

Good Afternoon Donald,

I consider myself to be a champion for several reasons. First, I was born into a very poor family in Pittsburgh with little hope of experiencing success. I adapted to an attitude that the more bleak the circunstances the more that I was going to be successful. I have moved on to complete a BS Degree in International Business as well as being inducted in the National Honor Society for excellence in business. I recently completed my MBA in Executive Management and Finance. I have accomplished this Donald while working full time. I have recently went on to be a college professor as well as opening my own Executive Consulting Business. I reversed the word no to mean on, so I will always move onward. Thank you Mr. Trump for the inspiration and mentorship. It would be an honor to have your autographed book as I have read all the rest of them.

Terry

"It's good to start each day by saying to yourself, 'What can I learn today that I didn't know before?'" says Trump. "It opens you up to more information and net worth as an individual. Why live restricted lives due to lack of knowledge when there are so many resources available to us today?"
I found this quote in a book review on the Internet and I agree with Mr. Trump. I also ask myself a similar question everyday.
During these challenging times, the race is for each individual to find their own champion within.
I am currently working on finding my champion inside me but I understand I am a work in progress project and it is not complete. I am in a learning enviroment everyday.
Currently, I am a house manger and I learn a range of things from living my life.
This is why I think I deserve a signed copy of your book as a gift from you.

Good afternoon. My name is Patti Mae Mello. I would be a great candidate to receive your newest book because I am not afraid to step out of my comfort zone to advance myself. I have the ability to create new ideas. I am not one to turn and run from challenges. Because I look at myself as a champion and see myself being the next milionaire woman.

Oh by the way, thanks for the book I love IT.
patti Mae Mello
P.O. Box 6452
New Bedford, MA 02740

There are several reasons why I feel I am a champion. I am a statistic. My father died when I was 12 years old, which left my mother (whom had end state Renal Failure for 25 years) and I to fend for ourselves. She raised me on my father's social security, her disability and a $183.00 monthly pension from my father's employer. She never went on welfare. When I turned 16 I went to work at McDonalds. I continued High School, which I did not complete because of work. However, I did receive my GED. I continued to work while I went to night college classes to become a Paralegal. I could not complete, as student loan payments were getting higher and I could not afford to help my mother and obtain a degree. I am also an Epileptic but I continued to thrive in the corporate America. I never let myself become a victim to circumstances I could not control. I got married and had a son who was born with Cerebral Palsy. I still did not let that stop me. I now work for my brother in law, as an office manager for three companies that he owns, all the while I am opening my own Notary and Real Estate Loan Document signing service. I still have the desire and the dream to obtain my degree in Healthcare Administration. My goal is to become an Healthcare Advocate and lobbiest. I sincerely believe that people need education in healthcare. Once people obtain the education on how the healthcare system works then the healthcare system will work for them. These are the reasons that I consider myself a champion because a champion never quits just because life or circumstance may become difficult. A champion continues to train and educate themselves to be able to stand tall and succeed. Watch out world, I have only just begun.

I am a champion because I put up with stupid idiots just because the corporate machine board has put them in charge. In these tough economic times, I should be grateful for even being employed by a top fortune 500 company (which I am keeping from naming) so that they won't be embarrsed by this post. How do I know we are doing so well? Because the chairman sent out an email stating that we are (and so did all of the VP's and managers above me (the same email by the way). However, we both know them and belive me the chairman and some of the exuctives should be fired. For instance, this senerio has happened: In 2005, I simply walked into a AT&T wireless store and bought a phone. A few months later, the company took over paying the monthly bill. On Saturday, 4/18/09 I was informed that i had to fill out a form and get whatever phone that corporate decided. Even though AT&T wireless has a cheaper phone/package! So they, the company, spent more for the phone and I am left with a brick (re: crappy) phone. Hey, if I don't win your book, that will be fine. After all, you need to give it to one of your collegues that will kiss your ass when you need it and that is one thing I will never do.

Mr. Donald Trump,

My name is Ken Posney. I worked in the wireless industry as a Business Analyst until I got tired of the layoffs. I sold everything and moved to Kaua'i to live out my dreams as a photographer. For the last four years, I've done just that. It's been an incredible life here.

Three years ago, I met my girlfriend, Haunani Kaiminaauao. She/we have four kids from her previous marriage. Sacrificing income for time she needed to spend with her kids, she resigned from her job. To save money, we were living on her mother's property, in a small shack (we call it the love shack). No running water, no bathroom. The main house had running water and a bathroom, all of it shared between 11-13 people at a time and a large rat and some mice. Most times we didn't have hot water for the showers, since the hot water heater had to be lit each time, using an open torch. Haunani's father has an abusive personality with her and her own kids. The police had been called several times.

We finally got out of this hellish situation and found an affordable three bedroom apartment for us and the four kids. The kids are survivors and so are we. Although, many have it a lot worse than we do. Every day when the kids come home from school, we have Personal Development. We read from your books, Think Big; Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" and Jack Canfield's "Success Principles". These kids now know that a job is not the answer. That they are 100% responsible for themselves. We are now independent reps for ACN Telecommunications and on our way to having the life we've always wanted but put aside because we didn't think it was possible.

We'll see you in North Carolina very soon! Haunani, my brother and I will be there taking notes.

I can't thank you enough for the time and effort you, Robert Kiyosaki and others have taken to help educate us on how we can and why we should be wealthy and live the life we were meant to live. Mahalo nui loa (Thank you very much).

This is not supposed to be a sad story in the hopes of receiving a signed copy of your new book. There are many, many others that have it much worse than we had it. I am writing this in the hopes of receiving your signed copy so we can show the kids, anything is possible.

**************Imagine being a CHAMPION – like Donald Trump!! You are the MASTER!!*****************
I am a Champion in my own small pond in New Zealand because I know that I have a lot to learn. No matter how much I read and practice what I read, it only makes me realise I’ve still got a whole lot more to learn. I started my own ROOFING business at 24. Being a young FEMALE in a very male dominated industry had its pluses and minus, but it did add a few challenges to an already extremely competitive building market. Most people met me and asked who the boss was. I got used to it and let them speak to one of my staff if a man was what they wanted.
Before I started my business I read 'Rich Dad Poor Dad' which was one of the two things that gave me the mind shift from thinking ‘I’d like to run my own business’ to ‘I’m going to START my own business!’, and I did.
I was very excited but I only had one friend that said 'you should do it, it’ll be great!'. The rest of my friends only had ‘what if’ stories to tell me so I stopped talking to them about it and just did it. I have a lot to thank Robert Kiyosaki for, and now you, since I’m in the middle of ‘Why we want you to be rich’ and would love to meet you both. I am now 33 and have just sold my business. I started my business with two staff and worked it up to 14 which is very small in your world, I know. Nonetheless, I am very proud of my achievement. While in business I invested my money in one commercial property, a piece of land, a trading company, shares and my own home. I’m now planning on having a family while I still increasing my education and passive income. I have also started a new Interior Design Business. Ultimately, I would also love to teach and train others on money skills. Winning your fabulous new book would bring me so much joy and exciting knowledge that i NEEEED!!! :)
PLEASE send me one???
Love your work!!!
Ayeisha

Dear Sir:

I am a Champion. I see problems as opportunities and I rise to the challenges that life throws at me.
It takes diligence and perseverance and the ability to see above and beyond. A firm believer that knowledge is power, that nothing in life is impossible and that people perish for lack of knowledge.

Attentively;

JG

Mr Trump

I think I'm a champion because:
(1). Since being a kid and now at grand age of 33 - one thing I'm proud of is that i've always followed my passion to do what I like re my vocation, despite well-meaning critics, family adversity and the 'rules' of society. When i've gone off track, I've managed not to give up and get back to whatever I'm supposed to be creating at that time of my life. Because of the courage of my convictions, at 23 i gave up the opportunity to become a corporate lawyer in the City of London and earn the usual six-figure salary, as I knew I could do that anyway through my own plans and passions - and I did and still maintained my sanity by 28 years of age.
(2). I've had the courage to apply some action to my creative ideas and step by step keep going. I'm always thinking off new areas to try and new experiences to create. I'll be doing it till i'm six feet under.
(3). In education, work and business, I've always treated people with respect, not been petty-minded and still got what I want most times. No point being a champion that can't respect others!
(4) I try to pass on the little that I've learnt to my young nephews so that they can make the best of what they can in their life, whether they want to be as rich as you, me (one day!) or do something completely different.
(5) The world fascinates me, people fascinate me, living life to the full responsibly fascinates me as well. Despite ups and down as is normal in life, i've never given up trying to do what I want to do and won't.

thanks for taking the time to read this, and thanks for 'Think Big"

Paul

Coming up with a statement for this was challenging enough--we all want to please, especially if we feel the end is deserving of the means. But I grew up as a child of eight, and I witnessed first hand my own parents' struggles, both their defeats and insurmountable happiness. I've learned many lessons from them, one of which is you're never too young to learn something new. hand-me-downs were a way of life for me, but the trick I used was to make them last even more, and retain their condition as long as I could. Thus, I learned the value of knowing what you have and realistically need.

From their perspective, I then learned that to ensure my own happiness was to consistently learn new things, while retaining those core values which never change. My thirst for knowledge has made many improvements in my life and personal well-being. I started two small consulting businesses while working my way through college and law school. My challenge now is to pay off that tuition, while also garnering happiness in my retirement years yet ahead. I feel knowledge is the key.

Anything I can do to improve my situation while helping others, with as "few trips" as possible, is my personal challenge. My head is spinning with the things I can do and learn; but I am most eager to follow through on my instincts. Although I know knowledge is a good base to start from, I am wary and enthusiastic to get started--I've got to get over that hump.

I need to start applying that knowledge--it is a struggle without some key financial ingredients--therefore I believe your book is a great source of insight with which to begin. I very much look forward to reading it (several) times.

And, I THANK YOU for the opportunity to at least have me put in writing what I have always thought...and for the book, which advice I intend to fully absorb.

Mr. Trump,
I believe I am worthy of the copy of your book because I have read all of them and have used them to build my bargaining power when dealing with my clients. The Art of The Deal helped me tremendously in my negotiating power with clients, as well as successfully negotiating new pricing contracts with some of our suppliers.
After reading your books, I brought my company to the forefront of sales in certain product lines that I chose for improvement by target selling to specific client bases. In one instance, I was responsible for 62% of the gross sales of just one product line after putting to use the skills learned from your books, making us the largest mover of the brand East of the Rockies!
I look forward to reading your new book and learning more skills that will further my company's, as well as my own personal growth.
Thank you,
Mark

I believe I am a champion because despite the ailing economy and despite family advice against, I have decided to go out on my own and start a business. I have been recently laid off from Countrywide Bank when it was taken over by Bank of America. It left me with cash, due to my retention bonus. I decided to go out on the edge and use this money to make money for myself. The profits from the business will go toward growing the business and investing in real estate, and this will generate additional incomes for myself and family. I have been receiving much advice against going into business for myself; having even been told that business is a "get rich quick scheme that never works." I considered my sources and decided to proceed anyway. What had I to lose? At the very worst I would have ended up in the same situation I was already in; namely no income and no job! I am proud to say that I have taken the time to brand my business and will be going up against other, similar businesses in the area that are already established and making money. I did my research and I found that the others are, for the most part, franchises and that they are very limited in what they are allowed to offer. The other one that is in existance that is not a franchise, has limited its offerings to but a few and they had a terrible phone manner when I called them to find out more about them. I am going to go head to head against them all and I will prevail because I am offering everything they either can't or won't, and that is what will secure my position as CHAMPION!

Mr. Trump,

I would first like to say you are my idol. Everything I have been striving for is based off of your knowledge. I am currently a freshman in college finishing up my first year, a Business student at Western Connecticut State University. I have watched every episode of your tv show, and I even have your action figure in my room, I am a die hard fan. It is a tough economy out there and when I get out of school I will be right in the brunt of the storm. I feel reading this book will really open my eyes to the economy I am going into and give me some very strong knowledge from such a smart man in yourself. I cant wait to read your book, I look forward to it.

Thank you,

Daniel

Hello Mr. Trump,
I would like to say that I don't just think like a champion, I act like a champion, because without action you can never go full circle. I have not read any of your books, which is why I desire to read this one. I believe that everything happens for a reason and at the right time and my time is now and I want to go to the top. After attending your Foreclosures seminar, I know that this is a business that I want to be in and I am willing to make sacrifices in order to succeed and the only way I'm gonna succeed is to learn from the best, you Mr. Trump. This book is more than just a book to me, it's a personal objective to success and I am striving. Thank you for taking the time to read this, your time is very valuable to me and I hope you have a wonderful day.

Dear Mr. Trump,

I have listened to your words in the media the last 20 years, learned from your examples and always admired how you never gave up! You really give self motivated a new definition! I have invested in real estate and had up to 4 homes in the 1990's, I then sold two in 1999-2001 and invested in a 3000 sq ft building and equipment that I now use for my business; VM-Manufacturing Corporation www.vmmfg.com since 1999. I have always had a love for real estate and even though their have been rough times in business, especially today, I now want to learn how to utilize my business to start investing in real estate again. I expect the best from my business and, always..., demand from my business to give my customers the best product we can provide them. I would really love to have a copy of your new book signed by you because you have shown a steadfast inspiration to many individuals, including myself, during good and bad times. My first ambition and love has always been real estate and I would very much like to have signed copy of your book to read and add to my other collection of your books. I know your words are that of wisdom and a knowledge of what works and what doesnt. I have already read all your books and like your parents said "believe in yourself, Trust in God" is something I tell people myself. Your parents remind me alot of mine. I feel you are an Icon in the industry and there is none that come close. I would like to do more of what your inspiration has already taught me.

Respectfully,
Vincent Marzigliano-Owner
VM-Manufacturing Corporation

I'm very excited to read Think Like A Champion. I recently read Trump 101 and enjoyed it immensely. Not only did I learn more about your business ethic and drive, but you shared glimpses of who you are personally. Now I see you in a whole different light-- so much so that I started watching Celebrity Apprentice, which is uncharacteristic of me as I'm not a reality TV watcher. I also checked out Trump U, where I recently took the Mini-class: Writing a Business Plan.

After being downsized out of a job twice in the last 3 years, I've decided to start my own business. I've worked long, hard hours for these employers, and it's time for me to do it for myself. Trump 101 was one of about 40 books I've read since deciding to branch out on my own. And if you asked my husband, he would certainly say that of all the books I read, there were only two I talked about continuosly while I was reading it and after I was finished...and of course Trump 101 was one of the two.

It's time for me to take a chance on me...and continuing to learn as much as I can from those who are experienced, and have found success through trial and error is one of the best ways to grow.

Thanks for the opportunity to win a signed copy of Think Like A Champion!

Dear Mr. Trump,
My name is Sandi Herschberg and I'm a Champion! Why? Because I had THE GUTS TO APPROACH YOU! I met you in 1989 at the U.S. Open. I remember asking you for your autograph. I gave you my U.S. Open ticket stub and you squiggled on it and gave it back to me. I looked at it in dismay and touched your hand and exclaimed: MR. TRUMP. DO YOU CALL THIS AN AUTOGRAPH? You told me that you would do it over. And then you did another squiggle! I just shrugged my shoulders in exacerbation and gave up. At that moment, SOMEONE APPROACHED ME AND ASKED ME FOR MY AUTOGRAPH!! You and I looked at each other and started laughing! I told the person that when I became a rich and famous actress, I would then give out my autograph. Your eyebrows shot up looking at me like really? And I nodded my head like yeah, really! I was so full of confidence then. Then my life took a downward spiral when my mother became crippled by multiple sclerosis. I left an excellent job at CBS News to take care of her the last 4 years of her life. I turned to Network Marketing to try to make money from home. Several times I approached you via mail to try to recruit you in my various business ventures. Although you were never interested in anything that I had to offer, you were always SO VERY, VERY KIND to have the most lovely rejection letters sent to my home. Mr. Trump, you have NO IDEA how much it meant to me to receive mail from THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION at one of the lowest moments of my life! AND I THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART! Being a caregiver to the person that you love the most in the world has got to be one of the hardest things in life. You feel so helpless and alone. Your letters, albeit rejection letters were a great lift to my spirit! Although they were written to me by Norma, it was obviously YOU who told her to and they were most kind. I danced jazz at Broadway Dance Center for 25 years always studying with one teacher: FRANK HATCHETT. He stopped teaching about 3 years ago because he had a brain tumor. I stopped dancing. HE WAS THE MASTER! During my mother's illness, I always made it a point to take jazz classes and would always stop off at Trump Tower on my way home. I LOVE TRUMP TOWER! I felt it to be my home away from home. Throughout my years of frequenting Trump Tower, I got the chance to meet several of your security people. All charming and dedicated to you. One in particular, Herman Young told me how much he loved you and that HE WOULD GIVE HIS LIFE TO YOU! I thought that you should know that! I want others to know that as well. You can always tell about someone like you through how you treat those under you. And you get an A+ from me! May God Bless you and your family! Thank you for being you and making New York City THE BEST CITY IN THE WORLD!
Sandi Herschberg
(718) 268-1335
sandi8@earthlink.net
P.S. I later heard that you sign your name by SQUIGGLING!! OOPS! umm..thanks...
P.P.S. I no longer want to be an actress. However, I am in the process of writing a movie about my life. There will be a part for you playing YOU. I'll have MY PEOPLE get in touch with YOUR PEOPLE when the time is right.
P.P.P.S. I spent the last 12 years working for a church. I LOVED MY JOB because I LOVE HELPING PEOPLE. I've worked for the Treasurer of Paramount Pictures when they were still in the Gulf + Western Building (now owned by you - like DUH!) until they relocated to La La Land. I had my own office overlooking Central Park. I loved that job as well as loving my job at CBS News where the first person that I met was Walter Cronkite and where I got to hang a bit with Don Hewitt (who had wanted to put me on 60 Minutes - but I laughed in his face and politely said no because I still had dreams of becoming a serious actress.) I LOVED MY JOB AT THE CHURCH THE MOST! I left my job because I WAS HARASSED BY A PRIEST. KNOW ANY GOOD LAWYER WHO WOULD N

I've dedicated the past 34 years of my life to teaching music in our public schools. The one idea I try to get across to ALL my students is that they matter and they have the right to become whatever they want to become. There truly are no limits to what they can do... and if someone tells them they CAN'T do something, I teach them to look that person straight in the eye and say "Oh yeah?... well what have YOU done?" I feel I've turned out a champion or two during these last three decades, but I'll always feel like a champion myself as long as I get to work with these outstanding kids.

George Haughton
Grand Canyon School
Grand Canyon, Arizona

Zero to Millionaire in 3 Years.

Hello Mr. Trump,

I am going to talk about results here and the process behind them to justify my claim. So, please bear with me - I promise it would be an interesting read.

I think I am a true champion by any standard.

In 2001 (age 32) I decided all my success as an Iranian businessman and entrepreneur is not enough because they were simply ignored by international yardsticks. Plus, I felt to be at a disadvantage in an international playfield. So, I decided to obtain one or more "blue passports". I am right now permanent resident of three other countries in addition to Iran: Australia, Canada, and United Arab Emirates. And in a month’s time I will be receiving my first "blue passport" as a Canadian.

Let’s cut to the chase and pull out some numbers.

My international net worth in 2001 was zero! I did not bought my way into any of those countries (although I could), but decided to earn it. It meant rebuilding my life (that had taken 14 years) again in a matter of few years in a totally new environment!

Right now, I own a $400K condo in UAE, a +$1M home in Toronto, a Canadian company (I won’t disclose its worth), a six-figure investment account, and am recognized (and recommended) as a professional IT consultant in Canada.

How was all this possible?

While I was waiting for my immigration applications to be processed, I studied hard to earn the highest possible level of IT certifications. It meant trips to Dubai to sit for tests. At the same time I was also running my consulting business in Tehran, which is quite a success in itself. I realized UAE is going thru a real estate growth cycle. So when they started to offer properties to foreigners I was the first in line to grab one that came with a builder-financed promotion. That property appreciated 400% since 2005 and it is one of the larger condos in a gorgeous tower designed by the famous Atkins Architects (in London) at the side of a beautiful man-made lake in Dubai, next to Dubai golf club and indoor ski facility (can’t ask for more ;-) really). When I moved to Toronto in May 2006, my certifications landed me my first job in less than 20 days. I worked there for 9 months (and this is the only 9 months in my entire life that I have worked as an FTE [Full-Time Employee]), resigned in 2007, bought a shelf company and started my own consulting practice. My first client was CIBC Bank, one of the five largest banks in Canada. The business income qualified me to ask for a mortgage to buy my first house, and obviously I went high-end since principal residence is tax free in Canada and I wouldn’t mind over 4000 sqft to live in. Since 2006, I have been studying investment management and investing myself. Today, I am successfully managing an upper-six-figure investment account.

Some of the major factors contributing to my success have always been: trying to understand things as they really are, having a keen eye for detail, researching out regulations and tax rules to leverage them in my favour, and trying to find a low-risk, low cost approach to new endeavours. Plus, using as much help, coaching, and learning from others’ experiences as possible along the way. I try to control and manage risk, but am not afraid of taking it.

I am now 40, and look forward to retire from IT consulting soon to devote myself entirely to investment management; both real estate and stocks. How many people do you know Mr. Trump, who have been able to pull off so much success in only three years (2006-2009) starting with practically nothing at a disadvantage in a new country?

I look forward to receiving a copy of your signed book. It would be cherished as a "trophy" from a master. Please feel free to contact me if you should like to verify any of the above.

Cheers,
Ali

Dear Mr.Trump,

I’m from China and work in real-estate industry in Beijing. I haven’t let myself into top-management yet but I am always working hard on it. I think the champion has two forms, you can be a champion of others, and you can be a champion of yourself, I think the latter is more important because it’s the engine and the source of everything. Always work hard, always be confident, always let yourself looks good, and talk on the base of analysis, one should be himself’s champion first. I have read lots of your books, and watched every episode of The Apprentice, and every post on your blog, you taught me a lot. I really want a copy of your book; and I believe the content will be another treasure from you and keep me think bigger and move faster.
May you come into a good fortune!

Lin Yang
2009-4-24

I'd like to receive a book because I'd like to read it and learn more. I did not finish college because I had undiagnosed Attention Deficit Disorder, however, I still had a passion for learning. I decided to make the ADD work for me, I focused on the things that interested me and taught myself various skills and got certifications in everything from firefighting and emergency medical care to networking and computer science. I was able to get a good paying job in computers because my certifications and resulting knowledge were more current than what the colleges were teaching their students. After a few years I explored going back to college but they were behind what I had already learned and experienced, so I kept engaging in self-study. I am very thankful to have succeeded in my chosen career and I am still engaging in self-study and always will.

I've encouraged other women along the way to take charge of their own lives and to succeed. A friend followed in my footsteps and went from being a divorced single mother w/no skills to getting her computer certifications, a job in that field, then went on to get a bachelor's degree, and now master's degree. She is very successful and all she needed was some encouragement and someone to believe in her when she couldn't, after that she did the hard work.

So, I'd like to learn more by reading your book.

I deserve a book because I suit up, show up and play to win every day because my company is my team. And being a sticker for detail I found a mistake on your web site. See below - should say April 23rd not April 23th!

"Marketing Secrets" with TrumpU's VP of Marketing, Josef Katz, will be held Thursday, April 23th at 8pm EST.

A Champion goes on living when things are tuff. When they haven't had a job in eight years. They do thier best to start their own job, even with only one sale a year , they keep going on. Learing all they can about finances, how to start a job, even going to college by correspondense courses, and by internet. They are willing to learn , go on in life , even when no one else is on thier side. No family, no friends, the church not even on their side. They keep going on because they know God our creator is on thier side ,and maybe only one other person on thier side, a mentor that they only get to talk to only once a year by phone, see maybe once or twice a year, that includes them in thier ministry when no one else will. A nd you Mr. Donald Trump , a man of wealth who has had thier high and lows in life,and are not afraid to share their opinion, what they have learned in life, from thier mistakes, not afraid of being criticised, or what anyone thinks. I have learned from you from reading your other books and watching The Apprentius and you on Larry King Live and other interviews on tv ,and QVC. You teach many all around the world . Hold on to your dreams and dont quit. That is what Makes a person a Champion. That is why I believe I deserve a copy of your new Book about being a Champion. I want to learn more. Thank You!!! L.C.D.

Dear Mr Trump,

You are an inspiration to me and I believe that I am a champion because I take advice from people like you. Growing up, my family did not have much and my parents view were that women did not need an education. I defied my father and went to Univeristy and I have both a bachelor and masters degree. I am innovative and learn incredibly fast, which is why I am one of the best environmental consultants in Australia and I work at the level of someone with 20 years of experience whereas I have only 4 years working in this industry. In that time, I have started my own company, which has been operating for about two years and the company broke even in the first year and will make a profit in the second year. I never have to do business development because all my work comes from repeat business or referrals. I also have a second company as I am designing sexy lingerie and I have written a childrens book, which is the first of a four part series and it will hopefully be published at the end of this year. I have recently brought the office that my company had been leasing and I have brought a second office off a plan and it is my intention to keep accumulating assets. I own my own house and the company has no debt or loan. Life has not always been so successful for me as I have been homeless twice and each time I have crawled my way back up. I am a survivor and a champion and why I believe that I deserve a signed copy of your book is because I have achieved all my success while dealing with a mental illness. I have bipolar, which makes my life difficult and my personal relationships strained, but because I am brilliant at what I do and I know all the loopholes to help my clients, I am inundated with work. I also squirrel money away, which has also helped me to be in a position to create wealth and purchase assets. I have done this all on my own without any help from friends or family.

Regards Gina.

I have always lived he life of a champion and have been blessed in many ways.

A "champion" stands for the well-being and success of others.

I enjoy ample free time with my fabulous loving and happy family. We enjoy close loving and sharing relationships and I am able to share in their individual interests. We just love hanging out together; whether here at our spectacular mountain-top ranch in Northern California or at any one of our favorite vacation spots we frequent around the world. I understand how to create and sustain the balance of life priorities that allow me to enjoy all aspects of the lifestyle I have created.

I am a champion standing for the lives of my family members.

I have enjoyed an exciting and very lucrative 39 year career a highly successful veteran business owner and entrepreneur. My experience ranges from my first entrepreneurial business, a lawn care company created at age 13 (and sold 2 years later for nearly $200k), to several enterprise class software companies employing thousands of people worldwide. I have been coached and mentored by some of the most successful people in industry today.

This nearly 4 decades of experience and learning delivering an average rate of return in excess of 500% to investors has equipped me to help others find and create a business or vocation that delivers both the financial and lifestyle rewards you expect.

I am a champion standing for the success of others.

I am a champion athlete who continues to train regularly with high intensity and remains competitive to this day with athletes 25 years my junior. I am a certified and credentialed fitness and nutritional professional who has developed revolutionary exercise and nutrition programs and protocols that optimize health and fitness lifestyles for thousands of people all over the world. I am a champion standing for the health and wellness of others.

And I am an accomplished musician, a master craftsman, and author. I champion the opportunity to create a life that brings joy and happiness to others.

And now I have the privilege of applying this extensive broad-based success experience and learning to coach and mentor others to the creation of the lifestyle and financial success you desire.

The information products and coaching programs I’ve created are designed to teach others find and create the robust and abundant life they desire.

In every pursuit there are a few key principles that have determined the magnitude of my personal success. Some I learned from other masters, including Jack Welch and you, Mr Trump.

Some I developed through personal experience.

All together these principles have allowed me to live a Champion’s life with NO LIMITS.

It is my intention to use everything I have to offer to help you find your limitless success.

In this way, I am a Champion who is standing for all that is possible for you in life.

Sincerely,

Steve Little
Founder, ThePerfectBizFinder & Champion Success Coaching
http://www.theperfectbizfinder.com

Mr. Trump –

Thank you, Sir, for this opportunity to be considered to receive a signed copy of your new book, Think Like A Champion. Everything I can learn from you, and from other successful people, is of inestimable value to me and to those with whom I can share what I learn.

I am a transgender male, 50 years old and just now finding my path as a leader. I am focusing within my own underserved niche group toward building a profitable multifaceted online business which will offer a one-stop shopping source for products specifically geared to the transgender community. More importantly, this entity will also provide a central access for resources and services that are greatly needed in this expanding community. I already have a few people coming on board who want to be part of this project, so my belief in it grows almost daily.

Sir, I have an art degree and a creative/academic background; I have no idea what I’m doing – Yet. Maybe I’m a little slow, but I have been taking classes, reading books, studying everything I can find and talking with everyone I can corner for several years now toward this end. I feel driven that this project must become a reality and I don’t think it matters much what I don’t know right now, but that I stick with it until it works. I will learn what I need to know as I go along; mostly I am learning that perhaps my best course is to surround myself with other people who know what I don’t know, and who are also committed to making this thing happen. If I am to be a Champion, and a true leader, I know I will only do so with the help of all the people I can hopefully bring together who believe in making this work.

I’m certain I will get a copy of your book at some point. It would be inspirational to have a signed copy if you choose to offer me one. Either way, I thank you for letting me share a little about what I’m doing, and to let you know that your example of success by doing what you love and believe in, supports my belief that I, too, can make a difference where it matters to me and to others like me.

Teachers believe that education is the key to our future and I am no different. Inspiring young minds to achieve more is something we all must do. In the world today it's not enough just to teach the our subject but to instill a sense of purpose and to demand the best out of our students.Teachers also need to lead by example and continually challenge themselves to be better. I am in the process of expanding my classroom here in Japan to not only help more people learn my language but also to offer a position of growth for my staff. I am also going to give seminars throughout the area on the importance of learning for ourselves. These are just two small steps on my goal to make a difference here.

A champion is someone who never gives up and is always striving to do more which is why in my heart I know I am a champion.

Dear Mr. Trump,

Why do I think that I think like a champion? There are lots of reasons, but saying that when life has knocked me down I always pick myself back up is an understatement. As a single mom who has raised 2 kids alone - I have always thought that moms deserve more appreciation and recognition. So a few years ago I decided to do something about raising the bar for Motherhood and I started a business called All Moms Go To Heaven, a website and gift line that honors moms each and every day. (We have some great Mother's Day gifts!) While I had thought that being a single mom was the hardest thing in the world to do...starting my business has taken me to new levels of challenge - and the accompanying 'Champion' label I can give myself. And, in addition to raising the bar for moms & motherhood - I have had so many email me telling me that I have inspired them to go for their dreams...Wow, what an honor to think that I might inspire someone to be all they can be - just by doing my best to be all I can be.

Why would I LOVE to have an autographed copy of your book? Well, as I always tell my kids 'whatever you are thinking is where you are'. In order to help me succeed in my business (and life in general) - I have my office space decorated with things that inspire me - pictures, quotes and the like. That way when I am having a bad moment (or day, or week!) all I have to do is look up around my desk to remember WHY and HOW. One of the quotes that I have posted in front of my computer is one of yours! I don't know where I got it from...but it so inspired me that I wrote it on a note card. Here is what you said:
'There is something profound & simple about viewing failure as a lack of wholeness. And it is ineffective! Do something about it - and feel righteous and energetic about fixing it. Being unhappy or unproductive is not in my game plan. Failure is unacceptable - get out of this mode now".

I love that!

Thank you for your consideration.

Mr. Trump,
Your book sounds exciting and challenging. If you will send me a copy of your new book, I will send you a copy of the book that I have illustrated and has just been published by Xlibris. The thing I like about you and your organization is that you dream and create excitment and without that there is no business. Best wishes on your book.

Dear, Donald J. Trump

I would love to possibly recieve your new book and here is my reasons why.

I consider myself a champion because I turned my whole life around and continue to do so. About 8 years ago I was at the lowest point in my life and definitely didn't consider myself a champion. My parents divorced that year, 9/11 happened, I was doing badly in school, I was causing my body physical harm, and I got to the point of suicide up to almost taking my life. The only thing that saved me was God and the possiblities of being in my mind what was a champion. From that moment on I was spiritually reborn and I guess you could say as a champion. Next thing I was in the top of my classes all the way to graduation. Working a part time job on the side and enjoying life more then I ever had before. Through the tremendous pain and set backs I learned to really appreciate life. To this very date I continue to strive to be a champion because I don't like to consider myself always as a champion. I like to work hard and have fun much similar to your work ethic. Donald both of us are champions in some way or form and since I knew who you were I fell in love with your character and work persona. I would benefit greatly in my quest for education and a better understanding of your stories to be awarded a copy of your book. I know the book is going to be the best.

Sincerely,

Lawrence W. Brennan

Your biggest fan.

Mr. Trump,

I am a champion because of my decision to become an entrepreneur with my own network marketing business. The network marketing business is exciting and fulfilling, given that my business grows by helping others to become entrepreneurs. I was also inspired to become a network marketer by your recommendation of this business in Chapter 27 of the book you wrote with Robert Kiyosaki, "Why We Want You to be Rich."

My entrepreneurial spirit continues to grow, especially by reading books such as "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill, "The Power of Positive Thinking" by Norman Vincent Peale; and of course your new book, "Think Like A Champion."

Mr. Trump, thank you for your inspiration on the important role that entrepreneurship plays in society. In addition, thank you for the opportunity to receive an autographed copy of your new book. I am already visualizing an autographed copy in my hands.

Sonny E. Franco, MBA
Buyingsmartonline.com

After purchasing your book today and investing in myself. I am taking my first step in my project of finding that champion within.

I have read some of the other blogs today and learned that my fellow bloggers are in this race, too. Today, I learned that I am the only one I am competing with to be a champion.

Sir,you on the 2/18/2009 proclaim to secede Trump Entertainment Resorts at Atlantic City. And the news was reported in my country,but I must to tell you one very important thing about you and your Trump Organization. There are many infringement course infringe upon You or Trump Organization.
I try to contact with you many times,even come to New York City on 5/18/2008. That weekend you went to Los Angeles for The Apprentice,but I saw Mr. George at Trump Grill and told to him the infringment course. You can confirm with Mr. George if someone comes from Taiwan wants to see you and tell you the thing. If you don`t care this important thing,I think you`ll be the blockhead or fool. Because you said that "If you need,you will suit them." in 4 season of The Apprentice.

God bless you and Trump Organization!

Hello Mr. Trump,
I've been following you for sometime now and have learned much, however one thing I've learned throughout my life is that I don't deserve anything. Since a little girl i've known that I would be wealthy and although I lived in the inner city there was an inner fortitude and resolve that to this day does not quit. At the age of 22 I was the first out of all my siblings (younger by 5 years and older by 6 years) to own my own home . Some years later, I had in turn used this home for rental income. It was then I realized that the wealth I had been feeling all along was right in front of me and although financial situations today are not the easiest, I do not quit. Banks say no, but I find another way to get the RE deal done. Therefore, I define a champion as a person who understands that even the treasured and most desired things in life are not given to them on a silver platter and with that understanding they don't expect others great or small, wealthy or not to just give to them. A champion is one who also understands that consistency is the greatest challenge and if they could maintain their inner resolve and consistency for their goal in life then they've already won. A champion sees beyond everything outside of them, looks around a corner and then another just to find that their goal was not to far from them. The goal then becomes much sweeter in achieving because theyve been consistently moving towards it as if they were already "there" and its been right in front of them all along.

Sincerely written,

Priscilla R. Fisher

The time has come to leave the chicken coop and soar like the eagle. I just need a little guidance to on how to properly position my head and set my wings. I have always admired your ability to just do it, so I really need to harness this ability to get in on the action and get moving to the next level. I have recently relocated to this country inspite of advice that things are not good here.

Well my inner being says this is the time for me to thrive and succeed, I can't just express it but the feeling is overwhelming. I did not leave my home because I was suffering, I had a fairly good job, a reasonable home, some real estate but I know it is time to go further.

You have succeeded because you have helped others to achieve and that I know is the foundation for growth so I am ready for your help so that I too can help others in their quest for success.

I'm 21 years old and maybe still a student , but I'm trying as many things as I could to improve myself. I love your books and like what you wrote in your books, I'm doing what I like and I love my life now. Why you want to send me the book is because I'm the person who will read and appreciate your books. I'm one of big fans and I hope you can give me your latest book that called "Think Like a Champion".
Thank you and hope to hear from you soon.

Hello Mr. Trump,

I can explain why I am a champion, however, I decided to take a different approach~
thank you for inspiring all of us:)



Champions make compelling Choices in life, having High expectations, taking Action while applying different Methods. Phenomenon it is & very Impressive when you realize how Original by Nature you truly are a champion.

That's what we are made of!

I may be a 24 yr old, middle class, asian guy; but I believe I will win the race and get to the top. I was born in what is so called a "third world" country where poverty, lack of education and corruption are rampant. I think I have a mission in life - I'm going to get rich to become a role model to my fellow citizens and one day contribute my knowledge, strenghts, passion, dedication and talents to make a real difference.
Donald Trump woke up the giant in me.

Hi! If the champion of champions want to hear comments from the people that have make profit from his knowledge here it goes. I consider myself a champion because living in the Dominican Republic I started reading about Network Marketing and decided to follow not only my senses but the opinion expressed in your book "Why we want you to be rich" and that decision has given me and additional income that is very representative in my economy. I'm also sharing this with as may people as I can and has brought me many good friend. I thank you for that and would be glad to receive your copy of your recent book. I hope it comes soon because I want to grow more. God Bless you Mr. Trump.

If you send me your book i am going to be bigger than you, and maybe some day your daughter work for me. =) The world needs champions like us, don't you think? We are gonna clean all this mess that is happening now, please send me knowledge.
I'm from Brazil, i'm just 19, starting college now.

Mr. Trump
I started thinking like a champion about a year and a half ago. After reading Trump Real Estate 101 and Trump Strategies for Real Estate Billionaire Lessons for the Small Investor you became an instant idol and inspiration to me. That is what led me to join Trump University and order programs off of here. I will be turning 18 in the next 3 months and this book will greatly boost my confidence and give me the tools I need to be successful as I prepare to enter the world. I feel that learning from an experienced person will help me avoid the costly mistakes that amateurs often make.

P.s (I'm getting the book regardless but having your signature on it will mean that much more.)

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for this opportunity to communicate with you. I have always faced challenges head-on and have pursued education and mentors to excel at each task I have undertaken. I served with honor with the US Air Force, retiring in 1996. During my military career during a "man's world" era, I rose to Senior NCO status by refusing to listen to my co-workers tell me to "just go with the flow" and drove to perfection. My second career is in healthcare as a paramedic and educator for my organization. I again refused to follow the "good old boy" scenario, but instead put myself in situations to be noticed by supervisors and upper management and have risen so far to Assistant Training Manager of a large organization. I am not done yet! I will continue to seek more education (determining which school to attend for my Masters) and always look for opportunities to grow in my profession. I am already a champion but I look forward to a challenge from you. I am a constant viewer of your apprentice programs and marvel at some of the weaknesses of the participants. Showing weakness of any kind in business is a formula for failure. While everyone has a weakness, you will never see mine -- I refuse to drop my guard.

Thank you for allowing me to tell you "a little about myself". I am more than what you can read here and waiting for a challenge from you to surpass your expectations.

Joanna

I never worry about the race ahead, just the jog I am now involved with. In all competitions, I walk away the obvious winner, because while others focus on the importance of golden apples, I escape with the personal contact with and company of the princess herself. Life is a golden opportunity to experience all types of situations, but discourse with other interesting individuals has always been the ultimate prize for all aware individuals. The seeds of success are dropped into people from one on one discourse, as we all share these intimate moments with many people throughout our life. I have championed past the Emperor's New Clothes, and have seen Godiva riding bareback in the distance. The champion sees justice prevail through his behind- the- scenes influence.
Lou Poppe

Why do I think I am champion? Well I have overcome many things and rose to the toughest challenge of my life. I am breast cancer survivor. I had a really rough time with treatments and all and I rose to the challenge and forged full steam ahead. I was always afraid to try new things and take chances but after having cancer I have seen that life is precious and sometimes in life you have to take the chances to do the things that you really want to do. I have become stronger and am not afraid to pursue my passion while also having a back up plan. I do plan things ahead and have learned to expect the unexpected. I believe that make me a champion.

Mr. Trump: Greetings from Alaska, where challanges are every day-weather,animals,logistics,travel,medical issues and care,financial inflation, cost of living expences. accesability,and long winter nights where a good book would sure come in handy next to the wood stove and the reading light. You are lucky as you use your helicopter for personal use, we use them for search and rescue and emergency operations-so others may live is the motto of search and rescue that we are involved with. We love our jobs here, and cope with all the issues that go with the topography. A good book is always a welcome sight as is your apprentice tv show. Thanks for all the hard work and especially the endless charity donations that you make in behaf of individuals or socitey needs. And you say YOUR FIRED oh so well. Thanks again H.P.

Dear Mr. Trump,

You've helped me become a champion, thank you!

I own your book "Think Big and Kick Ass" and "Never Give Up", I learned a lot and it was a great education.
I will surely be reading your new book, but getting a signed autograph from the man himself would be truly amazing.

I don`t have any doubt i`m a champion. Every morning i wake up with the intention of learning something new and continue fighting for my ideals, in short words business. I never surrender in any way, and always fight to be the best. Everyone knows that everything i do is a total success and i only do quality things. Even though i`m only seventeen i don`t let anyone intimidate me or try to make me fail in business. I have no doubt that in a near future i will be seeing Mr. Trump not only as a hero, but also as a person to do business with, or who knows, maybe even be partners in a great new building!

PS:
I don`t have words to thank you for all the advice i have recived from your books, every word is an idea i apply and a total help in my business world. You have been like a financial father for me. so thank you Mr. Trump for this chance.

George Zavala

Mr. Trump

I don't see reasons I'm not a champion. The only way to have a success in my everyday life is to be a champion. I can't make you believe it but more important i believe it!

I think your book is a good chance to improve my champion skills. Please, sign it for me.

Thank you!

Mr. Trump,
It is truly an honor to get to describe to someone, who has played such a tremendous role in my personal growth about why I AM A CHAMPION.

Life throws curve balls at everyone, and my recent list is too large for a blog such as this. BUT, after taking time to sit back and look at not only myself, but the situations that I originally thought could get no worse, I was able to find how in fact, they could get no better! I am finishing up my third overseas deployment in a couple of days, and over the term of this last deployment I have had a series of unfortunate events that ranged from the heartbreak over a long-term lover to the death of a close family member. I have learned to look at the brighter side of things and thanks to that, I have not only been able to smile when I otherwise couldn't, but I am using my situations to be able to help other people I am deployed with get through some of their difficult situations!

This simple, but not easy, attitude change has already proven to me that I have more of a Champion's blood inside me, than anything that has happened in my 23 years of life, and I now look forward to everyday with open arms for whatever it may bring, because I know no matter what I can make any event into my own "good or bad" in which I have chosen to make them good.

Thanks Mr. Trump, for helping me overcome my challenges that I thought I never could! I'll see you on the up-side!

A champion indeed.Never has time and life been so challenging to the point of squeezing the best out of our lives than it is now.Some are giving up while others are making the most out of this situation.To me this is nothing because am coming from a country where unemployment is barely 5% a population of 10 000 000 people.With just two univesities were you have to bribe your way, you need to be a champion to believe in your self and get the information you need to make it, not just to get a degree that will keep you looking for a job for the rest of your youthful life.
I consider myself a champion because i have never allowed the poverty of my country,lack of study opportunity and unemployment to be the reason why i don't get the life i want for myself.I have discovered together with my brothers that our singing ability was the only way to get the life that we desired.
We have music albums and are travelling accross the globe entartening people through our dance music.We have been to Europe and we have been in and out of the USA ,doing what we love while educating our fellow youths how to use their talents to get the best out of life.
Our music and our netive african dance has afforded me the opportunity to be in charge of my dream. Now i can find my way to paying my last dollar for my school.
Please sir, your gift of the Champion will give me more energy to fight the good fight of faith as i help my fellow youths back home in Africa to become champions.
I thank you ,
yoours Hezron Ngosa.

Hello Mr Trump,

Call it "raw " or call it "refined" but I can spot good business opportunities miles away and this has perhaps been the biggest catalyst in getting to where I am today.

With me is a couple of lost /challenging attempts but we all have our adversities and focusing on that is just but taking a "poor me" attitude.

For a while now I have been able to identify a niche area that Kenyan universities (and others in the region) haven't been able to capitalise on and yet it commands such an enormous potential. Believeing in this and with limited experience I took the plunge and here I am today with a lot around me but keen on going on. Key is that I took the jump, contacted some of the leaders in the US in this area and we have already started a pilot project albeit facing a couple of difficulties in bringing this to an end (because of funding issues).

I love virgin areas and I will never be afraid to try out something new and attempt to change the status quo to something better and this simply confirms my blood group.

If I am not a champion, how many members do you have from Kenya on your blog? Was I among the first to spot Trump University & become a member from this part of Africa? Then sum it all up with Kenya's population and those with access to the internet.

I know I deserve the few signed copies and have no doubt I will get one (which will be greatly cherished).

Kind Regards,
E K
Email: ekungu@yahoo.com
Nairobi, Kenya

Dear Mr. Trump,

I think I am a champion because I am a big fan of yours and admire the way you have conducted yourself throughout your career. I read your first book the Art of the Deal several years ago when it first came out. That is probably the best business book I have read. I have followed my own instincts, have been successful in my real estate investments, and have made decisions based on sound thinking and ideas picked up from the Art of the Deal. You are a class act and I admire the way you handle yourself and your personal branding. You are definitely in a league all of your own and a great role model for people who really want to be champions. Emulating successful people with a track record is a great road map to success.

I am a champion but we are all works in progress and having your new book signed by a person I want to emulate would be a great way to continue my journey.

Wishing you continued success in all you do.

Jerry
I

Hello Mr Trump,
It is interesting to just think about why I would consider myself a champion.
Since turning my life around and striving for more, after reading "the art of the deal":
I met my wife, moved with her to Belgium.
I left a comfortable go no-where job, all I know, to go on to complete a business course (in Dutch which then I barely spoke) became a personal trainer and now am the manager of all the trainers and putting together my own business.
I think being a champion is not always succeeding straight away but persisting until they do.
I've wanted to quite many times and I have only just began a long journey, a quote a friend told me is when dealing with a person or challenge ask: what would Donald do? Then there is no chance of being a chicken.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Kind Regards.

Sir Donald Trump, I would like to have your book but most of all meet you and talk to u... this is why....

My name is DIANA ROCA, I was born on February the 1st 1989 in the North of Mexico, just below Texas, I have my life so seen and set, and I say future seen because if you imagine it and search it, it´s totally happening, I have my life structured with many happiness goals, One of my goals is to be a known singer and selling image, other is to be a super business person, I study finance & economics, read books from great business people, watch CNBC, BLOOMBERG, etc. every once in a while. And as a singer, get my own brand line in fashion products and clothing, then inaugurate a chain of lounge-bars & hotel-boutique, being always involved in the stock market & real state, investing in any good business that pops up & financing people, ALL under a corporation, and at last write my own book :D, all this mixed with LOVE at all times, someone that supports me and loves me, I think it´s an important part to be able to do all this, and of course working out, traveling and partying all around!!! Haha… I enjoy singing and is included in the business part, cuz it´s a business too… I have 7 small tattoos, 1 of them has my keywords in life, it says: BUSINESS, WORK OUT, PARTY/LOVE, TRAVEL…I admire lots of people but most of all Warren Buffett, I plan to meet him soon, I´ll go dig and dig in Omaha until I find him hehe. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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I also party a lot, make fuss and always try to sing at every party and make business haha :P, that´s another reason why I like to hang out with older people.
I´m also a spiritual girl, I don´t mean religious at all, but I believe that our spirit pushes us to do what we desire, gives us our personality and the spirit reflects your lifestyle and how other people see you, I believe in good and bad vibes, energies, strength in character, leadership, mind control, superior beings and weak personalities, I believe life gives you everything you need to succeed, you just have to be truly intelligent to see it´s in front of you or know what to do, always make the right decisions, I believe all the answers are inside of you, you just have to work on yourself to figure it out and use a bigger fraction of your brain than the average people to do big things.
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I already started of course to start making them all happen little by little, Athony Robbins says it doesn´t take 10 years, it takes a moment, haha I´m trying to understand that because it has to take time, the fastest I can do it the better, but since there´s several goals, it´s gotta be one by one, step by step, hopefully I have a long life to do them all.
You might think I´m crazy, or think that I´m dreaming or it´s impossible, well, I don´t think so…I think I´m weird too sometimes but I like it haha, they say Einstein and great geniuses were crazy, but it was because they were really smart and above the average, so I rather see it that way :P…when I do crazy things, I enjoy more, I´m cheered up and happy, I think I think & analyze too much and have a special and different personality, which I see as points on my favor, cuz as I say, you gotta be different to make an impression. THANKS AND LOVEZ TO ALL!
IF I GET AN ANSWER I WOULD LOVE TO SHARE MY VIDEO AT YOUTUBE SO YOU SEE WHO WROTE THIS... AND HOPEFULLY GET YOUR ADVISE OR IF YOU THINK IT´S POSSIBLE ON THIS BUSINESS MEETING I HAVE NEXT SATURDAY, HERE´S WHAT IT IS ABOUT http://www.be-rio.info
THANK U VERY MUCH
HOPE TO GET LUCKY
DIANA ROCA

Mr. Trump:

I am a Chinese young man who just gets Master's degree in business in an international school in South Korea. Your books and TV shows have helped me to find my passion to be an entrepreneur.

I am a champion because I think like a champion. The bigger the challenge, the more excited I am. My successful transfer from science to business is the best proof for it. Prior to this Master's program, I have zero business knowledge but a Bachelor's degree in engineering. Yet, competing with people from Harvard, Princeton, and UC Berkley, I made myself on Dean's list in the very first semester of my business education. The willingness of being ahead of those highly educated and talented people has become an unlimited motivation for me.

I deserve this book because I have the potentials to make the most profit from your tenets in this book. I am a pure Chinese-Chinese who also consciously learns from American businesses. Interestingly, there are as many consistencies as differences between American and Chinese business wisdom. In order to be a successful businessman globally, which is my dream, I have to master both properly. You are the very definition of the American dream and have never hesitated to teach. Who else is better for me to learn from? Hence, I would like to be the guy trying to shine your insights in China.

Meanwhile, beyond this Champion Challenge, please keep on sharing your business knowledge with us.

Really appreciate it.

Sincerely,

Han

There are numerous challenges one encounters abroad that cause dissonance in principled thinking. Many thanks to you for your messages the stimulate the business mind with information, entertainment and empowerment. Trump University assists those of us who are residing abroad to retain the vestiges of the American culture that thrived as small businesses, in the Era of Big Business. As a graduate student of history who teaches abroad, I must say the faces that showed the spirit of a new nation still exist in those of us who are sculpting our businesses abroad.
Irvin Seon-saeng-nim

Thank you for the opportunity to shine!
I’ve always been a girl who loves to ride tornadoes! I’m not really alive unless I’m involved in a challenging task with a whirlwind of activity that most people would find impossible. Give me three impossible tasks before breakfast and I’m a happy woman!
I was brought up in a home with an alcoholic abusive father who gave up on life and encouraged his kids to do the same! I was also the weird little child that everyone laughed at because I thought that I could be famous when everyone could see that I was nothing.
Even then, I went to three Massachusetts state championships as a child: once to a state math fair, once to a patriotic essay contest, and once to the state drama festival. It was an honor to be chosen to represent my small town at these major events!
Many children growing up in the kind of environment, in which I was placed, might find themselves going in the wrong direction- but I told myself that I was a Mary Rose and that a Mary Rose was a rose that kept on being beautiful and smelling sweet- no matter how many times it was trampled in the mud.
As I read your book about champions, I find many examples that bolster my faith in myself. I also see many examples that show me areas that need improvement. But no matters what happens, when I am issued a challenge, I still respond with the same drive as that little girl so many years ago.
Here is just one example. Three summers ago, I was teaching at a VBS. I like to teach VBS because it builds resiliency in children two ways. First it helps them bolster their faith which will see them through many dark times in life. Second, it gives them time to shine which enhances their self-esteem and helps them to become champions themselves!
The teachers were challenged to a classroom decorating contest. The teacher with the best decorated classroom would win a back pack. One of the things that make the classroom more interesting is to create murals by tracing outlines of projected images on rolls of paper- then painting them. I knew that I could not get in until the weekend before the task- so I scanned in the images, then took the 8x11 inch image and counted pixels to enlarge the image to 8x11 feet. This involved counting pixels to crop each picture into 144 discrete images that were enlarged and printed out! Every night, I would spend an hour doing this for several months.
I examined every resource that I could find to order materials to decorate the room. The weekend before the event, I came in and pasted those 288 images onto two 9 foot by 12 foot canvas, then painted it. It took 8 person-hours for each canvas- but they were awesome. My assistant was able to put in 8 hours to help and I could not have done it without her! Every bone and muscle ached- but there was so much work to do on Sunday- and we finished at the very last second!
Needless to say we won. But the real reward was the look on the students and parents faces when they came in and saw that they were doing VBS in this imaginative space. The murals also helped make the lessons come alive! The next year, I was Arts and Crafts director, but my assistant carried on the mission with great murals of her own! Passing on the torch, is one of the greatest rewards!
I believe that I am a champion and that I have what it takes to deal with any challenge in life. Maybe this essay will prove it to you. I would love to have an autographed copy of the book. But I am not just any old champion. I am a woman who told you that if you ever built an awesome skyscraper, that you should put your name on it. You took my advice- maybe it was a new idea- maybe it just reinforced an existing idea- but it contributed to the person you are today. And that is what I want to see in the inscription- not only that I am a champion who helps other people to become champions- but that it made a difference in your life.

I am a Chinese born in Myanmar and I am really interested in all kinds of business. But there is no chance to buy a book at amazon.com from here as credit cards are no use here. So I absolutely deserve to get your latest book as I can't buy it here, Mr. Trump.

My name is Margie Simpson and I work from home, in a quiet suburb in Johannesburg in a business that I love. Its so amazing for me when you consider where I came from.

For my entire adult life I was a stay-at-home mom raising six children, and I had never held down job of any sort. After 25 years of marriage I went though a devastating divorce.

My ex-husband wound up excluding me from maintenance and medical aid benefits. I was forced to find work for the first time in my life in my 50's. I had zero experience and no qualifications and no one was willing to employ someone of my age with no experience. Finally I found a job that was very poorly paid working as a receptionist for a dentist.

Suddenly I realised that my income did not cover my expenses...but I had never dealt with financial matters before and I had no idea where to turn. I knew that I had to find a way to increase my income and also have the freedom to travel because four of my adult children had emigrated to the UK.

I searched for a solution and stumbled across a remarkable opportunity. I was very sceptical to start with because I had no experience at all and had never sold anything in my life before. I really doubted I could do this. My focus for all of my adult life had been on raising a family not running a business. What really got me was my mentor didnt care how old I was or about my lack of prior experience. It seemed so right, especially with the promise of a mentoring process.

After just four months in business, working part time, my income was double my salary as a receptionist. That made me excited and gave me the push that I needed to expand my business.

I now work full time from home. Through this opportunity I have had the pleasure of travelling to exciting destinations such as Amsterdam, Greece and Singapore. I visit my children regularly, five of whom live abroad. I just recently got back from visiting my grandson in Dubai.

This business that I do promotes personal development and growth and at the same time makes dreams come true

Although my journey has been wonderfully educational, as well as helpful to me for developing business skills, it is the champion within that I am searching for!

I would like to develop the ability to think like a champion and in so doing become a champion. I would dearly love a copy of your book!

Sir,
I had a chance to hear you speak at a convention in Dallas three years ago, read several of your books, and love the Apprentice series. I am impressed by your ability to make decisions and candor when working with people. With your passion, drive and commitment, I have learned how to improve my skills to become a better US Army Officer and real estate investor. The principles taught in real estate are applicable to military officers. The ability to analzye an issue and make decisions are similar in both of these professions. I am on my third deployment, second to Iraq, I am directly responsible for the lives and welfare of outstanding Soldiers as they do their best to accomplish their mission and encourage freedom in Iraq. I believe your new book, Think Like a Champion, will only increase my knowledge to become a better person, husband, father, and son, as I choose to influence the lives around me in my family, the military and real estate professions. I desire to be a champion in these fields, to make sound decisions that are very important to the lives of all.

Very Respectfully,
Thomas

Mr Trump,
Good day. I am Nigerian and have never had an opportunity to read your books. But I admire your charisma, drive and ability to succeed in all you do very much. I hope i get your book.
Thanks

Dear Mr Trump

A champion in my mind, is not necessarily the person at the top, but the one who gets there because he just keeps going, despite the odds being against him and despite the setbacks!

I'm still a 2nd year student at university, so my challenges are limited to academics, people and personal development, but through learning from mentors such as yourself and my father, and through seeking challenges every day, I aim to equip myself with great attitude, knowledge and power to kick ass in every goal I pursue!

Kind Regards
Ernst Nel

Hello Mr Donald,How are you?
I am from Nepal.I came to your country 18 years ago and saw your buildings in new york.Now I am recieving your university stuff.I also happened to see your talk with larry.let me go through them to write something what I feel.Good Day
Regards
Vijoy Nepal

to be the champion you need to be the best, who defines the best and who can decide if someone is better than the other person.
well i guess a true champion is someone like me and i tell you why, i don't consider myself any more worthy than anyone else in this competition but feel i am a champion because i was given a second chance at life and have done well with it.
at age 15 i was a full blown drug addict and gang member and was enjoying that life until i was around twenty and was nearly killed in a fight. i could have chosen to give up and die right there and then but i chose to fight.
i have had to fight against drug addictions
i have had to fight against violence
i have had to fight against old life styles
i am now thirty, i have a buitiful wife and three children, i fort to win, and to remain on the top, i am part way through getting a university education when five years ago i could not even read or write properly, but have never stopped fighting.
i am the champ because i have never lost a round since i changed my life around. and i never will

Due to a recent discovery in my local bookstore, I am now comfortable enough to call myself a champion. I have learned to Think Big. I own a company called Your Personal Occasion. We make personalized candy bars, bottled water, and personalized gift baskets, among other things. Until recently, I had been going through the motions and just getting by. Now I wake up every day with passion, ready to start my day. I am working to create the momentum that I know will take my business to the top. A few weeks ago I was invited to a trade show for a foods company to try and find myself a few good vendors. I planned on just attending. After reading my new discovery, I learned that you have to accept new challenges. Now I am in the process of creating 1000 packets, samples and brochures to give out to every vendor I speak to at the trade show (and I plan on getting in front of all of them). I am going to create my own luck. I am a champion because I take the knowledge that I am learning and applying it to my life.

Mr. D.J. Trump,

A singed copy of your soon to be on the best read list, "Think Like a Champion", I'm sure will give me and anyone woh reads it many great ideas,and help me form my own great opinions. A saying I try to live by is - "A champion is someone who gets up, even when they can not"

Thank You

Bill Iosco DBA WWW.CONSTRUCTIONBYIOSCO.COM

First I would like to thank Trump University for the opportunity to be a Champion.

I am a 25 year old ambitous Mosotho woman.I currently work as a Marketing Assistant , as a young marketer in a developing country like Lesotho I believe by utilising the skills that I hope to get in the book "Think like A Champion" I will be groomed to become a global citizen. I plan to work to transform my country using creativity to bridge the gap between developing and developed countries. I believe I deserve to get this book because I am one of the countful youth who can transform my country.

Regards

Hi donald,

why i deserve a copy of your book - not only am i now making a success of my career, i am starting my own outsourcing company, am a mother of two and have a past that i will make your toes curl. i feel i am a champion as i had little to no financial aid for studying but i made it to where i am now by researching and gaining knowledge via the internet, as well as hard work and dedication.
if your book can help me give my 2 children the financial freedom to study and make a success of their lives then i definitely need a copy

kind regards
Marilize Nel

A champion is one that never quits, they keep their eye on the prize, and will not let circumstance prevent them from acheiving their goals. I grew up in a large middle class family, my parents knew that they could not afford college for us so instead they instilled in each of their children a strong work ethic. My brothers and sisters have all done well in life and so have I, but it was not easy. I went to work at 15 and quit school at 17 so that I could work full time. I soon regretted this and so I went and got my GED and began to take college classes when I could. It took me 18 years to get my Bachelors degree, because I worked full time and had two children to raise and so I had to put my degree on hold twice. Finally I graduated with a dual major in Business Management and Psychology. After six months off I decided to go back for my Master's degree and I finished it in two years, last December I graduated with an M.A. in Human Services & Executive Leadership. During this time I still worked full time and I also founded a nonprofit mission organization. WIth that all done I am now preparing to start my own business, I have done what I had to do to support my family, but now I am thinking that I would like to see if I have what it takes to step out on my own. I would love to have a signed copy of your book Think like a Champion because I love to study the lives of sucessful people. I want to know what worked for you and what didn't. I already have a really good collection of biographies of sucessful people from all walks of life, including yours, and I have read some of your other books also. I hope that you will send me a signed copy of your book, I can go buy a copy and probably will unless you decide to choose me, because having a signed copy is so much better than having one that I bought for myself. Thanks, and I hope to hear from you soon! Robin

The dictionary defines champion as a WARRIOR, FIGHTER.

I am definitely a CHAMPION! I do not back down from difficult challenges and work hard to achieve everything I set my mind to do. I do not listen to negative advice from others. Even if the possibility looks slim, I press on.

For instance, before becoming a published writer, I had no experience but great passion for writing. One day I wrote my name on a blank sheet of paper, along with the heading, "Published Works", and set out to fill it with story titles. I've since published over 100 magazine, newspaper, and other articles.

When I wanted experience writing a column, I started my own.

When my employer downsized, I sized up and started my own business.

My champion strategy for everything is --Decide, believe, step out, and see the results!!

Mr. Trump, I read (and re-read) your books all the time. You are a HUGE inspiration. I would love to have a signed copy of your book for my collection. But, whether you pick me or not, I'm going to read the book and thank you so much for writing it!!! But, I'll look forward to receiving a copy soon. Thank you.

Mr. Trump ,You are a true champion and I would like to receive and read your new book
" Think Like a Champion "
So I can be more a champion and put some of your advice from the book into my business.
I own a transportation company which opened in1989 in Atlantic City NJ . 20 years in the limo
business is very long time, most new companies starting out only last a few years.
There are a lot of challenges in business as you know very well, I have met most of the
challenges that I have come up against and kept on going. I am sure your new book
"Think Like a Champion' ,will have a lot of your knowledge that I can learn from and
Think like a Champion.

Thanks for the opportunity! :)

Champion challenge for this book seems like a good occasion to highlight one champion characteristic: surround yourself with great people!
And if I get this book I will share it with great people I am surrounded with, and also, share it with my friends who are also great leaders and business people.

I am a Champion because:

- I do what I enjoy in life.
- I am one of the three percent that rights down his goals.
- I do not let obstacles keep me from achieving those goals.
- I am open to the advice of the world especially those with great experience.
- You say lucky, I say God loves me.
- I'm thinking, thinking big.
- I have great roll models such as yourself.

I'll see you in the winners circle, sir.
Bart Gonzalez age 16

I am a champion because I never give up
I passed for many things,like grew with a alcoholic father and live in miserable conditions
bad schools,but I never heard what people says I trust
in God and in my potencial
today my father stoped with our help and
I got a scholarship in the best college in my city
I have many challenges to face
but I believe with fath and determination
everything is possible
is not the situation that define you
but what you think define you
because that I always think big

I stiil think I am worthy of receiving a book, however, Mr. Trump I have received a gift from you today with this challenge. I am my own unique individual self-expression.

Thank you!

My husband Manny is a champion. In 2005 he had a stroke from to much medicine which was prescribed by a doctor. He had been an over-the-road truck driver but gave his CDL back when he had the stroke. Over the next two years he walked, did a garden and built an online business called Wabbsters.com. Before the stroke he could look up stuff and do email. After the stroke he has learned how to do to build a business from scratch by trial and error.It took hard work and many hours at the computer. In February he incorporated Wabbsters Inc without any outside help. He became well enough in the fall of 2007 to get his CDL. He is a definately a champion.

Over the past several years, leading up to this time of economic upheaval, I have taken an active interest in furthering my entrepreneureal education. We learned from Investools how to trade stock and then the markets all went south. I decided real estate investment was the area I was most interested in pursuing due to y background in the construction/building industry. My library of books pertaining to real estate investing has grown steadily, with a few of the authors that interest me being yourself, Robert Kiyosaki, T.Harv Eker, Dave Lindahl, Jim Cramer, Steven R. Covey...to name a few. I have participated in dozens & dozens of webinars covering various aspects of real estate investing and found this is the niche for me. As I have been between projects for the past few months, I've had the time to put together my business plan for a self-storage facility and have secured 75% of the $2 million dollars I need to bring this project to fruition and hope to break ground iver the next few months. When this facility is opened and shows the positive cash flow that the numbers are telling me, I will expand this venture to another and another and so on until I have a protfolio of 7 - 10 properties. It has been through the knowlege and advice of the many experts that I have read, listened to or was fortunate enough to speak to at one seminar or another that has driven me to be champion to myself and my family. For it is for them that ultimately all my hard work has been for so we can have a comfortable lifestyle and teaching them to further their financial education as well. Thanks for being one of my main financial education mentors!

I think i am a champion because i m alive,
and i deserve the best in my life,
Because of that im very happy!

my best wishes

Louise Bodin

In the current climate, I have had to develop a new mind set. I run a title abstracting firm in South Carolina and when the real estate market carshed and burned, we can very close to going under. At 53 years old with 3 kids that is not a very good place. With support of my family I had to start thinking outside of the box. I started reading your books on entreprenurship and marketing. Also, I went back to school entering South University online to finish my business degree, with an emphasis in finance. By doing this I am retooling my skill set. for when thing turn around which they will. One thing that I have learn from you is that you never never give up. A Champion does not see defeat and you may have to take a step back in order to go three steps forward. I have read that you need to find someone that is successfull at what you're doing and just copy what they're doing. It would be a big boost to me to have a signed book from you. If I can't speak to you directly at least I will have your mind in front of me in your books. Every day I think big and know that I am a champion. Have a good day.

Trillionair Entrepreneurship School

Hello my name is Jason M. Farr; President, Founder, C.E.O., Principal, and Head Professor of Trillionair Entrepreneurship School. From birth to death we are constantly told of all the things we cannot do. This has dramatically formalized the development our subconscious mind into a cannot reality that is so far away from the truth that human beings operate way below their given natural potential. Contrary to normal belief systems of our current world, the mind was created to be a can-do instrument and like most computer systems they do exactly what the programmer instructs. In our life time we have been programmed more so in the realms of a "cannot do" mentality and therefore as a result we perform way below our created performance level.

Trillionair Entrepreneurship School is like none other in the world because it will teach its students to send a different programmed message to the conscious and subconscious computer of your mind. My daughter asked me was I going to become little like her since she is three years old. I told her no that she is going to become big like me. Yet as I thought about what she asked me through Quantum Thinking I realized that in Trillionair Entrepreneurship School I need to always become little like a three year old. In my grown up position of a programmed cannot mentality, I thus know too much that is counter productive to my creativity and to become little like a three year old I need to forget rules and laws that govern the universe.

Imagine for a moment, what could have prevented my daughter from asking me a grown up, "am I going to become little." In my daughters mind she recognizes there is a difference in our size, but because she didn’t know that she is going to grow up, she then counter wise thought that maybe I will become little like her. My daughter with a 3 year old mind state didn’t know that I cannot go down to her size, so she considered that as a possibility. Trillionair Training teaches us to shrink down to a 3 year old mind state and forget the impossibilities, cants, and unfathomable! You can if you really think you can! So the hard part isn’t the can, it’s the part of convincing ourselves that we really can! For if you think you can’t you won’t! A 3 year old can really think and their mind is still developing and in the growing developmental process their mind is taught to degrade and regress through the adult programmers who cannot and will not even give it an honest try for themselves. 3 year olds can do anything and everything is a possibility. Trillionair Training will inspire you to think in essence like a 3 year old!

Take me for an example, your professor. I have no formal training and I invented the first lesson of Quantum Thinking while I was in prison. I’ve been to prison 6 times, did and sole drugs, was a gang banger, but you’ll learn more from me in six months than you’ll get your whole life time. It took a lot of guts on my part to start Trillionair Entrepreneurship School in the first place. And this is what we are about taking bold steps to pursue our dreams in life no matter how outrageous they may seem to others, ourselves, and the universe! With this school I am doing the impossible and on my journey to becoming the first Trillionaire I want to inspire you to come along as well and let’s race! This school is impossible but like my daughter I didn’t know that I couldn’t!




professorfarr@yahoo.com

The reason you should send a copy of your book addressed to Vickie ,signed by Donald J. Trump ."Really is quite simple". If you expect the best you get the best ." Think Positively, Where There's A Will , There"s A WIN! " Donald J Trump . Vickie Coffman

HELLO MR.TRUMP.THANKS FOR THE CHANCE TO GET AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF YOUR BOOK.IM A CHAMPION IN MANY AREAS.I A WAS A CHESS CHAMPION ALL THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE.I WAS A GOLDEN GLOVES BOXING CHAMPION TOO.THE THINGS THAT MAKE ME A CHAMPION ARE THAT IM WILLING TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES WITHOUT BEING DISHONEST.I WORK HARD,WORK SMART,& NEVER QUIT.I CONSTANTLY SEEK TO IMPROVE MYSELF IN ALL WAYS-PHYSICALLY,MENTALLY,SPIRITUALLY,& FINANCIALLY.I READ & STUDY EVERY DAY WITHOUT EXCEPTION.I TAKE NUMEROUS PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CLASSES& HAVE SOME OF YOUR BOOKS TOO.I MEDITATE DAILY & WORK OUT DAILY AS WELL.I DO CALISTHENICS,WEIGHT TRAINING,STRETCHING& CARDIO TO BALANCE MYSELF OUT.IVE GOT NUMEROUS DEGREES & CERTIFICATIONS IN A VARIETY OF AREAS.IVE BEEN DOWNSIZED MULTIPLE TIMES FROM COMPANIES THAT WENT OUT OF BUSINESS,BUT I KEEP LOOKING TO MAKE OR FIND SOMETHING BETTER.I ALSO FOCUS ON USING MY KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS TO HELP OTHERS TO BETTER THEIR LIVES AS WELL. IVE SEEN EVERY EPISODE OF THE APPRENTICE & KNOW THAT ILL ALSO LEARN A LOT FROM YOUR BOOK.THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST.

I am a champion because I realize that I am responsible for myself and my own actions, not others actions as they are not responsible for mine. I work best when I'm told that I can't succeed at something, It drives me! I married and had my children as well as divorced very young. Raised my children, matter of fact the youngest graduates high school this year. At this point in my life I am taking some of the dreams and opportunities back that I sat aside because I was playing the part of mom and dad. My children needed all that I had to offer at the time. I then went to work for a family business where I learned that you loose your own identity. I have since relocated to prove that I can accomplish my goals on my own name and at 37 years of age, I am ready to take the world by storm. That is what brought me to your site. No sense in reinventing the wheel when you can go to the source that has proven results.

Most honoured businessman, Mr. Donald J. Trump "The Champion"!
It is a great honour for me to be part of this competition and I also feel priviledged of having the opportunity of addressing this letter to one of the most well known figures not only in North Amercia but all over the world as well. I do belive that not evreybody has this chance and opportunity that's why I will try to do my best in trying to tell why my spirit is made of one of the champion.
First of all I belive that there is a champion in each one of us. The question it is not whether we are champions or not, the question should lie in the fact that we either know we are one or not.
I am a champion because I know I am one. And the same goes for every champion out there, they all are champions because they know they are one. It doesn't take too much in being a champion. All it takes is being yourself, understandig and knowing everything about it. Well... i know who I am, I know what I am capable of doing, and I also know what I am made of. I am made of champion's qualities, I am capable of doing champion deities, and yes I know I am a CHAMPION.
Thank you very much for your time, may God bless you and all the persons of your heart Mr.Trump, may He bless all the chamipons out there.(In the other thought) GOD bless everybody!
Respectfully Alban Hida

Everyone of us are already champions. Since we were coneived (we were the champions of that race), and here we are: Living our lifes in our wonderful world.
But that's just enough being a champion once?
I don't think so.
Being a champion consists in making the things in a certain way, keeping the pontential at maximun level in everything we do and all human beens are in the capacity to do that.
So...What means "Being a Champion" for Gabriel Lagarde?
Being champions consists just in founding in the last place we use to look for (Ourselves) that energy in the last place we use to look for (Ourselves) hungry of glory and success that allows us to achieve everything we want in the best way we can imagine, never giving up and making us biggers in the tough situations.
So when we finally find that energy.
When whe are alredy REALLY hungry of glory and success, and convinced that we will succeed.
And feel the glory around our own world.
Then... We Are Champions!
Thank you very much Mr Trump.
I hope you can read this.
Gabriel Lagarde
Barquisimeto, Venezuela.

Dear Mr.Trump
I believe I am a champion worthy of receiving this excellent book from you because At the young ripe age of 18 I have already decided through the influences of some of your other readings (specifically "Think Big and Kick Ass" and "Why We Want You to be Rich") that want to become a champion, by thinking big nad not getting stuck in the common rat race everyone else falls victim too. I ama ttending college next year to study marketing and I plan on studying real-estate in my free time and hope to one day become as successful and influential of a businessman as you are.

With my Sincerest Thanks,
Jonathan

First, I want to thank you Mr. Trump for sharing your wisdom and knowledge with others who want to move from thinking small and being small to thinking big and being big. After seeing you on Paula White's show with Mr. Kiyosaki over a year ago and then reading your book "Think Big and Kick Ass", I knew I had to change! As active duty military I have honorably served over 13 years. I did my job, got paid, enjoyed the travel and the friends. As a single woman with no children, it was easy for me be on autopilot in life. As long as the rent and utilities were paid, I didn't look any further. Once I bought my first home, then the money mattered. Suddenly I had to pay attention to my finances. It was apparent I was no longer satisfied with "just making it". All my goals and dreams including a bachelor's degree had been accomplished but something was missing. What was it? PASSION.

All of my needs were met with family, friends, a stable job and enough money to cover the bills. Now, I had a new challenge and a huge obstacle: changing my mindset. I had to break free the mindset of being comfortable, settling for what most people around me have settled for. I had to defend my actions of moving forward and taking risks when everyone else was telling me "I have to stay put, I have bills or that is too risky". I had to break free from self-imposed mediocrity and being safe because I was thinking too small. I also had to realize your words in my heart. "Whatever I do, do it with passion" and "not everyone is meant for entrepreneurship".

Why am I champion? I am a champion because every day I resist the temptation to settle for being comfortable with a small pension after 20 years of service. I resist the fear and chaos others fall victim to because they have not recognized it takes more risk to be above the rest. I've stepped out in faith and with passion to begin my real estate empire (hey, I thinking big). Since I was a kid I have loved looking at houses so why not build a business around it? I am a champion because I chose to follow my dreams and go where most will not. The challenge isn't making my dream come true. The challenge is overcoming ever present obstacles in my own mind and so far, it hasn't been easy but I have done it every time. God bless, Mr. Trump!

PS. The only way to be a champion is to face my own fears and not let them run me. I am a champion because I am a project in progress of loving and accepting myself as I am in the moment.

Good evening,

"Surround yourself with champions if you want to be a champion" is a statement that I have long remembered hearing from a very influential coach of mine. The other half is that if you want to succeed at something, NEVER quit. Such as in my case, we are not all born into a family of champions, but a desire to always be better or improve "yourself" will attract others like you.

I must admit that being raised by a single mother, due to the death of my father, presented interesting opportunities. I remember many "authority" figures including a judge a one point, no trouble just a custody issue, would constantly state that being raised without a dad was a sure way to end up a criminal and was not as good as being raised with one. First of all, tell that to those that got abused by their father. On a more positive note, I not only made better grades than 99% of my class mates, I was a starter on the varsity team (thanks Mom for throwing me my first practice passes), and was raised in an impoverished neighborhood so I had plenty of street smarts and humility. What I lacked was a business mentality which most children go without unless they receive it from their parents. The entrepreneur spirit was not taught to me, and I will NOT let any one take that away from me. I am always improving, and when others say i have changed. I thank them, and ask them why they haven't.

In the end, I plan to be part of the solution instead of the problem when it comes to financial stability. I have always thought of myself as a champion, and as such, I am excited to hear of your new book "Think Like A Champion". If I ever get the chance to learn from someone like yourself, Mr. Trump, I will proudly accept. Until then, I will greatly appreciate receiving a signed copy of your new book.

Thanks for the opportunity to share my perspective,
Manny Lopez

Recently, my thought process and how I feel about myself in general has been quite negative...not even close to "Champion" like thinking! I've lost my job, my home, my pride, and fear that I'll lose my son as a result. I hope you will consider sending me a copy of your new book, "Think Like a Champion", as this could be the answer and the start to a better life. Moreover, I'm confident any book signed by YOU would motivate and inspire me to turn my life around. Heck, you could even throw in a new car or house as a little bonus:>) Now that would be the gift of a lifetime! P.S. I often wonder about a couple of projects I sent to your organization a few years ago... did they ever reach your desk and if so, what were your thoughts?

I am a Champion because it is my birth right, and you can take that to the Bank Mr Trump!!

I also have the birth certificate to prove it!!

I will purchase your book, because I believe it will be an investment, the book that I get for free, kindly pass it on to somebody that you believe would love to here some form of inspiration or teaching to better one self, but those not know were to look. There are many out there, anybody, he could be somebody you just pass by on the street or in a coffee shop.

I say this, because, all the people here subscribed or not, know how to find tools to better oneself, you are all champions, and as a champion you know what a valuable investment it would be to purchase a book by somebody that has been as is still in the battlefield and winning like a champion.

I once didn't know were to look, but once a great man came up to me and showed me, now my mentor, and that made a huge difference, hence me writing this would have never happened.

Get the point!

We all here, posting and reading comments know were to find valuable knowledge to invest in, if you do not see this, get out of the game, because you will get hurt, a servant is worth his hire.

So, pass it on.

Matthew
International Champion Recruiter

I think this is my final revision to your challenge.

After purchasing your book and investing in myself. I am taking my first step in my project of finding that champion within.

I am going to work on facing my fears. I am a champion because I am a project in progress of loving and accepting myself as I am in the moment. I am working on my own process and can only be responsible for my process of finding my champion within.

All I can attest too, is that I have been in an "accidental career" for 17 years. NO future for me anyway, I dread going to that job everyday. It pays the bills and provides insurance, 401K, paid time off. No satisfaction whatsoever.

I am now beginning my journey in Real Estate investing. I have not submitted a single Short Sale packet to date, but, I have found many properties that I will be moving on over the next two weeks. I have a goal, a plan and a mentor.

So in my mind, a champion is someone that will not give up and just take what is in front of them. They go after what they want, never give up, be tenacious and above all - learn the trade at which they feel will take them the furthest in all of life!!!!!!

Dear Mr. Trump,

I read your book "Think Big and Kick Ass" and it changed my life. I lost my job in December and my marriage was going bad, but then I picked up "Think Big and Kick Ass." After reading that book, I made the decision to stop thinking like a small person and start thinking big. I love learning and I plan on continuing to learn from you. I want to know what's next. That is why I deserve an autograph copy of your book "Think Like A Champion."

Thank you for all that you have thought me and continue to teach me,
Andrew Lind

Hi Mr. Trump!!

My name is MARIA PAULA GUTIERREZ FERNANDEZ, I am from Colombia, Latinoamerica. I am a Champion because I have the energy, passion and selfconfident to reach what i really want, no matter what it is, my entrepreneurship spirit, my positive energy, my optimism, young attitude and happiness every day around my life makes me the things easly to reach whatever I want.

That `s so amaizing when you understand and you really know that you can do it!!, and an excellent phrase from you that characterizes to me...Never give up!!...I love it.
I´m studing business managment... one of my biggest dreams is work and learn from you everything as possible about business world, being your apprentice, work in the Trump Tower is one of my huge challenges,(I love big challenges lol..) and I know they will be come true.....!!!!!
Thanks for this opportunity.

Sincerely,
Maria Paula Gutierrez Fernandez
Colombia, Latinoamerica

Mr. Trump,
Champions are simply individuals who do whatever it takes to get the job done. There are no excuses to being a champion, only results. Champions look at themselves in the mirror every morning and expect success. There is no "if", only "when". Champions have passion and enthusiasm and enlarge others to succeed as they continue to achieve their dreams. If you don't tell yourself your a champion, then why get up in the morning? To me it's pointless. To live a championship lifestyle, you have to deal the little things each and every day that others do not want to do.

As for myself, I live like a champion everyday. My mission is to raise $1 million dollars for Habitat for Humanity in honor of my late father. (http://www.lostdadsclub.com) I am an ordinary guy carrying out an extraordinary mission. That is what being a champion is all about.

Sincerely,
Eric Tomei-author I Miss My Dad...

I believe I deserve to be singled out because I have been very successful these past few years. In high school, I was the Chapter President and District Vice President of the Future Farmers of America. In college, I was elected as the Student Body President as well as the Chair of the Student Body President of Kentucky this past year.

Now that I am graduating college, I need to figure out what I am going to do with my life. I know I want to help in the lives of others, but in the past I knew what I wanted to do. I do not know what that is as of right now. If I was given the opportunity to read your book, I might have a better idea of what I want to do over the next few years.

Michael Harmon

I'm a champion since my birthing because I was born with only 6 months of pregnancy... And my mon was so worried about me but I survived and I came to this world before expected.... And I always be a good student the best of my class, and school... and in the university was the same thing... Always looking for the excellence...

Beside all financial difficulties at home I start my own company when I was just 17! and at 21th I was managing my own company doing computing support and configuring linux servers to others big companies.... Now with 28 years old I'm launching my own training system in dvd to all young people who wants to sucess in computer world without depending of nobody....

And as a loyal reader it's hard to get a good book here where I live right now in Venezuela, but after I read Think Big and Kick Ass from Trump it confirms me that I'm in the right path to go on sucess like the real Champion I am...

HELLO, MR. DONALD TRUMP. MY NAME IS GANBAA. I AM FROM MONGOLIA.COUNTRY OF CHINNGIS KHAN. YOUR ARE MY BIG IDOL. THANK YOU.

"A SHORT SAYING OFT CONTAINS MUCH WISDOM." - SOPHOCLES

Beacouse I have to have this book!!!

I'm from Macedonia, ahd I'm doing hard to sucssess in my job, and I must have this book.

I'm having two books of Yours and I know EVERY word of them. I've also readed the Art of war and I'm really trying to sucssess.

Thank You and I'm wishing You all happyness and health!!!

Jasminka Dimitrijoska
'' Stojan Bunguroski'' 24
Kicevo 6250
R. Macedonia

"A SHORT SAYING OFT CONTAINS MUCH WISDOM." - SOPHOCLES

I remember when my late grandfather said to me, " Study hard so that you may come to america - the land of milk and honey." Unfortunately I was denied by the consul officer during my interview. Tears flowed in my eyes. "Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune."

I remember when my dad is in the brink of losing his job. During those times we didn't eat lunch, just one cup of rice in dinner. " We do not live an equal life, but of contrasts and patchwork; how a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action."

I remember when my mom cried beacause of our debts. It put as down in poverty. At that hour is a electrical activation in my heart that says to move on and be strong. I never give advises to mom just listen to her constantly. " My life has been examole to many because you have been my defender. Do not reject me now that I am old do not abandon me now that I am feeble... You have taught ever since I was young and still tell of your wonderful acts. Now that I am old and my hair is gray, do not abandon me, O God."

During my stint in the hospital I've assisted the doctor to debride the open wound of the patient. The whole leg, exposed flesh, swirling maggots, smell like a dead flesh, closed room, where we ate almost got sophicate. Another experience was wjen I did a CPR to a dying patient. " Don't hesitate to rescue someone who is about to be executed unjustly. You may ay that it is none of your business, but God knows and judges your motives. He keeps watch on you; he knows. And he will reward you according to what you do."

I write this, 2:30pm, a hot sunny day in a small village, here in the philippines, where farming is the number one livelihood. I am sitted beside my father. Reminiscing the story of my girlfriend ariane, nephews, nieces, my brothers and some friends. They are my inspiration in being a champion, just like you, Mr. Trump, " Being wise is better than being strong , yes knowledge is more important than strengh . After all, you must make careful plans before you fight a battle, and the more good advice you get, the more likely you are to win."

I know I am a champion. I started college in 2006 at the age of 48 and during the next two years I while battling my own health problems and the death of both my Mother and Sister-In-Law and taking care of my own family, I was able to graduate with an AA in business with a 3.76 gpa. My Mom was able to finish 8th grade before she had to stop going to school and it makes me proud to know that she taught me the value of education.
Come to think ot it, my Mom, Elsie Sexton, is the real champion of our family.

The one reason I answered your challenge is I as a champion have to learn everyday to understand myself and my enviroment.

I am Colleen April Celis, 24, from the Philippines. I believe and I know that I am a champion in my own right because I had to overcome a lot of challenges to get to where I am today and where I would like to see myself in the future. I came from a low income family which meant in my country that I would probably get an education because of my parents hardwork but it may not be the best education. However, I beat the odds when I got accepted to SPED-SEC (Special Education-School for Exceptional Children) during my gradeschool, which is a special public school where high quality education is provided without any tuition fee. However, my parents taught me that persistence and consistency were keys to success and I was passionate about learning. So after gradeschool, I got a scholarship in high school to Philippine Science High School, my country's premier science high school. This meant that I get an allowance and we didn't have to pay for anything and I get the best education. In my college, I was awarded another scholarship to Ateneo de Manila University, one of the top universities in the Philippines. I took up a bachelor's degree in Management of Applied Chemistry. Being the top student in my class and the top 5% of the graduating class meant that I got one of the best job offers. After my graduation, I became a manager to the number one quick service restaurant in the country, Jollibee Foods Corp. I am currently employed in the company and I have followed what my finance teachers taught me in Ateneo: invest in stocks and mutual funds, save, and eventually start up your own business. I taught before that since I had a lot of extra money and I didn't have the time nor the experience to start my own business, I would just invest in stocks and mutual funds and let people who have the expertise do their thing. At least my money would grow by 8-12% not enough for inflation, but better than being in a bank where interest is at 1% per annum. Last year, a good friend told me that a better investment is realty since it appreciates through time. I had an opportunity to buy a land and I intend to put up an apartment in it since its close to a mall. I dabbled in two businesses: buy and sell clothing and a food kiosk both earned really well but were not sustainable since I did not have the time as I was tied up in my job. However, I am a voracious reader and I really enjoy learning. I would have thought that all my plans are set (I'm getting my MBA next year) and I just need to save more to reach my goals. I started reading, Why we want you to be rich, and all my beliefs were shattered. You see, I still believe in the old school thought. I lived below my means so I can invest for the future. I know I wanted my own business but I planned to do it when I turn 30 so that I have more savings. However, I realized that now is the best time to start because I don't have a family of my own yet and I can take on the risks. I know that I am a champion, I am tenacious, analytical, and I seek to inspire others and be inspired by them. I speak for school organizations about my experience as a "work in progress" leader. I am able to help my family in the achievement of their dreams (I helped finance my younger brother's education and he graduated college last year). However, I know that I have a long way to go and one of the best part of the journey is to learn from great leaders such as Mr. Donald Trump. So I hope that I get to win this book. I know I can really learn a lot from it and I know that I will definitely apply what I have learned in my life and even share it with my friends.

I am not champion. In my mind I never will be. There is always space to grow. Idea that you are champion doesnt push you forward.

Dear Mr. Trump,
Thank you for this challenge, like a champion I plan on winning a signed copy of your book. I believe I am a champion for three reasons. First, I study my competition and learn to exploit their weakness. I do this in sports and in my professional life where I learn about what my competition does and what we do that is better. Second, I prepare everyday for what can and can’t happen during the day. I anticipate challenges and mentally prepare my reaction to anything that may come up. Third, I am aggressive and I do not believe the words normal 9-5 work day are for me. I go out every day to seek and close business for my company. I know if I don’t ask for the business I will not get it. This has lead to early success in my business life.
Thank you,
David P.

My champion within when realized can help in these challenging times. My champion within is both the CEO and the employee. We can all be champions and be part of the solution with open and honest communication between our CEO’s and employees. This race can have a possible win-win outcome.

Dear Mr. Trump,
the Reason I am a Champion is that I discovered you already 20 years ago, when I first went to the States. I was brought up in Germany in an environment where I still were taught, you do not need lots of education you anyway get married and start a family. Even so I always felt a calling. But Self-Development or even my own Business was not available for me. When I came to the US this first time and bought my first book from you, it was a challenge to read for me and I even guess at that time did not even finish. But because I have this curiousity in me, this wanting for more, this feeling I am something special and can reach the sky, lead me finally after another 14 years by finding HERBALIFE as a MLM company to Self-Development trainers like Jim Rohn who lead me to great other mentors. And it is so true, when the student is ready the teach will arrive. I read many books, listen to many tapes and audios and still I was not really getting where I wanted to be. Since last year I have included my spiritual work in my life, thanks to OPRAH another person I admire. So through Eckart Tolle, Byron Katie, Robert Holden I am getting closer and closer to the point where I feel I stop sabotaging myself.
I was always an incredible employee, as a clerk as well as a manager in middle management. I would have always hired myself because I always did my jobs as if I was the owner of the company, again even without knowing all this from Self-Development. Since I work for myself I had the feeling now that I finally work for myself and can make big money I slowly but steadily lost my commitment, persistant, success, goal orientated, sufficient talent I had.
I knew since a while that Success does not bring Happiness, I had proved this in my life in Germany being very successful. I also found out that Happiness leads to success and if you find your passion and work in that, you do not see it as work anymore. I see this all the time in people like yourself, Richard Brandson, Obama, Oprah and so many others but still could not find yet my solution.
I found a HAPPINESS Seminar and through set I feel I am getting closer and closer to my destiny and dreams of life. And all will start in accepting myself, trusting me and having faith and the rest will fall in place as well as my success. I know for sure I am going to achieve big things in the near future and who knows perhaps you are one person who will be on my list to meet soon through my achievements.

I know that I certainly am a champion Mr. Trump. Now i am 17 years old and since when i was in the seventh grade i started to watch your show and read your books, and I followed always your advice. I am from Romania and I managed to find by now "Think like a Champion" but I will be very happy if you will consider to send me one signed by you because you changed me a lot. With your indirect help(through your books and advices) I managed to win a scholarship at Duino in Italy at United World Colleges and that's why I think I'm a champion - I was able to find for myself the best model and to be able to admire you.As Thomas Mann said : "To admire someone is to become a part from that person."

Dear Mr Trump,

Thank you for the opportunity to let you know that your book and your comments have been an inspiration to me. Many things that i have read in your book or thing that you have said in the apprentice, i have thought of that but was affraid to apply them. But you give me the courage to to make the first step. Now i am improving my self and my bussines.Here in Curacao Netherlands Antillies we are in paradise, but you must think and work hard. The most important thing is to think wise and nor only for now but for the future. I cannot say that i know every thing, that's wy i still learn from your book and from the quality that i have.

Thank you for share with us.

Sincerely,

Shahaira Martins Pereira

Dear Mr. Trump:

I would like to receive your book to learn the proper ways to purchase real estate properties around the world. To understand the basic principal looking at the right numbers and different factors I can create my real estate portfolio that will be life time experience.

Thank you,
Mercy

A Champion:
Is one that perseveres and does not give up. I am a great grandmother who throughout my life have succeeded in raising six children, several grandchildren, and now two great grandchildren. My life is about achieving my goals and every day, despite obstacles is another opportunity to win a better life.

Real estate has been a passion in my life. I know that a great part of succeeding in any business is to associate oneself with people of knowledge, tenacity and savvy. I chose to learn this craft, and Trump is the one to mentor me. Allow me to show you that I can do this. Allow me to be another success story that can only come from a Trump disciple. I will win in this business because I will study, take calculated risks and give it my all. This is my opportunity to become who I already are.

Thank you in advance for choosing me. SC

I am a champion because I know who my customers are, and what they need. I take pride in my product, and I'm always looking for ways to improve.

I was born in one of those countries where people did not have much to choose from in terms of opportunities; where desperate parents struggled to provide for their children; and, where their children struggled to get an education. In those countries, everyday life is a marathon...and to think as a champion is necessary in order to survive. I always remember this.
Sometimes I ask myself - do I feel like a champion? Definitely yes. At an early age, I learned how to think big (because I had a dream and passion for my dream); I learned how to be enthusiastic and never give up (because I knew how to turn my problems into challenges); and, I also learned how to negotiate (because it was the only way to get what I want without any money.) The small library of my hometown became my "Alma Mater", my second home, and books became my food. That was the place where my biggest dreams were born - dreams about traveling the world to appreciate other cultures, being a polyglot to communicate better, getting a great education, and having enough finances to be able to help those in need.
Looking back now, I realize that most of my dreams came true (even though I'm still young.) However, one of them is still in progress - to become a great entrepreneur. Three years ago, when I came to the US, I started to learn English at the local college. While my classmates were reading twenty-page "Zorro" (..lol..), I went to our local library and found Donald Trump's books (those with audio included.) They were easy to read and listen, and the material was appropriate for me. Therefore, I learned not only about business principles but English, as well. This is probably the main reason why Trump's books are very important to me.
Mr. Trump, of course, I can buy your book "Think Like a Champion" later, but it's not as exciting and inspiring as to receive it from you with your personal signature.
Thank you for this opportunity.

Greetings from Riga, Latvia!!!

Thank you, Mr. Trump, for being an example for me!

I always had a fighter's mentality; it always seemed, that I had a bigger dream and more resistance to a "just be like everyone else" mentality than people around me, and I thought out of the box already as a baby (according to my mother, I always tried to get out of carriage before I walked).

At the age of 15 I started to play/sing jazz and blues music, and since there were no chances to get lessons in ex-Soviet country (that has prohibited this music during the USSR) nor play with kids as myself, I saw, that my only chance is to go abroad. After the high school I left to Germany with 100 German Marks, no German language, no family and friends in that country. My ultimate goal was to go to NYC and make it as musician. I had to leave everything because everyone abandoned me anyways, including my family. I took with me a God given dream and a poverty mentality, that started to ruin me as soon as I arrived in Germany.

To cut a long story short - I lived in Germany 7,5 years and 5 years I kept walking around the same mountain wondering, why my big dreams are not coming true... I heard a conference CD of Australian bullion banker Peter Daniels and first time I realized that I have to take responsibility for my life. And the journey started. I become a real estate agent in order to learn how to sell, I got involved into network marketing company which had an excellent training, got a bunch of new friends who were great business people with lots of money and right thinking.

I also got my act together to visit NYC for the first time - in February 2008. In March I read "Rich Dad Poor Dad" and in May I "discovered" you. I put music on standby because I had no plan anyways and I had to have one. I dug into business books. I went to sales and business seminar in Orlando in July and on that trip I met a wonderful guy from NYC. We married in NYC on New Years Eve. I stayed in NY for almost 4 months and I had this time to get my thoughts together. I went to two seminars that changed my life forever - one of the 3 day Rich Dad Education courses and another 3 day Trump University's Foreclosure retreat. My life turned upside down! I have a plan to achieve my life goals and I know that my labor will bring the desired results. I had to return to Latvia until my US residency petition is being processed.

One thing I recognized in these 10 days being in Riga - I did the right thing when I left 8 yrs ago. I am changed, I think out of the box, I have far more competitive edge in music and business than the vast majority of those who stayed. In these months I'll have to be here, I will reunite with my family, build a nice retirement portfolio for my aging parents, build an internet business and polish my music skills by performing here (and I have a plan finally to go to the top).

I am a champion and I deserve the book with your signature, Mr. Trump, because I am running this race to win!!! I must feed my soul and continue to fight; I see that the results are about to appear in a physical world and for a person like me, who has lived all life in a bad reality, that is one of the biggest victories - to see the physical results. I need to boost my self esteem further, endure and receive my crown of glory.

Thank you for your consideration!

Sincerely,
Dace Dubrova-Serrano

Dear Mr. Trump. A champion sees opportunity in times of adversity and challenges. That's how I see the economy right now. There are challenges everywhere, but there are also opportunities. Currently my wife and I are researching and analyzing numerous commercial properties in the United States and we are in the Trump Institute's One-on-One Mentoring Program to try to capitalize on the opportunities around us.

Even from our home in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where the economy is depressed as well, we are staying positive and determined to be successful in this market. I think if more people thought and acted like champions rather than victims, we would all see improvements in our economy faster.

I have read all your books, have used some of your advice to further my real estate career, as well as the advice of some others who have written creative ways to structure deals from years past. I am continually searching ways to advance my skills, especially in this era of challenge. I am persistent and will persevere but have not yet reached some of my goals. Perhaps through your and my ingenuity, I will be able to profit and complete the task or challenge I have before me. All of my real estate purchases have been made with zero cash out of my pocket. My sights are set on acquiring an overseas property and a high rise office building in the same manner. Let's get started.

Member #1281519
Dear Mr. Trump:
I think like a champion, because I am one. I am not afraid of any challenges in my life, and I have had to face many. I learned that a giant can be killed, if you use the right weapon to kill him . I have life experiences as a weapon that have truly kept me alive many years in this city. I have learned from many many leaders, both good experiences and bad experiences too. The vision that God gave to me, was to me (and not any one else) This mean I am responsible for my own vision. The vision is for the appointed time! It shall come to pass.

Mr Trump thankyou for allowing me the opportunity to explain why I deserve "Think Like A Champion". During these difficult economic times I was laid off in a community where there
are over 400,000 already laid off. I had 2 options, sit back and collect unemployment or
get out there and determine how to survive and pay my bills. For 22 stressful days I walked
business to business in search of a job and I found a job. It was a job in an industry I have never worked in, and the pay was $10,000 less than I was earning before and the work environment was not very positive. But my first priority was to get employed again and have
peace of mind that I would be able to take care of my family and pay my debts. To make up the difference in my salary, I acquired a website to supplement my income although it has been a difficult start. It has been a very challenging and trying economic time, however I have decided not to listen to the ever increasing negative economic news on television and instead focus on how to overcome these difficult times and create wealth day by day by developing the discipline to forge ahead regardless of what uncertainties lie ahead. Whenever I read and
read again my Donald Trump book collection, I gain the strength and mindset that soon my
life and that of my family will get better very soon. Once again, thankyou sir for this opportunity.

Christopher Montanez

You should send me the book because I am like you. I always think outside the box, think proactively, I anticipate and always think BIG. I never let others to pull me back. I am fairly successful in a dynamic biotechnology industry. I am self-driven and recently completed a 3-year online law school and received my JD. I am investing my time and energy with Trump University so that I can learn how to generate passive income at the right time and the right place. As life is always full of challenges, and I would like to know what challenges you as a champion.

What do I think of myself as a champion. I am not at the top yet but I am on my way. I am 28 y.o, a father of 2 and 3rd one on the way.I had a lot of struggles in my life, I had debt to people and creditors of over $70,000.00, I was in disaster debt, but I managed in a very short time to break the barriers and to succed in real estate and to support our family. I am completely debt free now and I own real estate worth $ 500,000.00. I am really on my way to succes I really enjoy getting one more step further to be on the top, and you Mr Trump as my mentor I am confident I'll get there. You have to get through the struggles of the business to be on the top. I learn more when I failed than when I succeded. That's why I deserve your gift ......

I am a Champion because of what I don't do, I don't quit.

Quitting excludes Championship behavior for the following reasons.

(*) If you quit you fail to learn from your mistakes.
(*) If you keep trying then there is always a possibility of success in the future.
(*) If you keep failing and you don't quit you learn the lessons from your mistakes very well.
(*) If you don't quit people think you are serious.
(*) If you don't quit people are inspired by you.
(*) If you don't quit it makes eventual success feel much better.
(*) If you don't quit you get the chance to reinvent yourself.
(*) If you quit and then decide to try again some time later you loose time and time is priceless.

Simply put, you have to be in it to win it.

Ryan Upton
http://www.uptonrobotics.com

Hi Mr. Trump. I am a challenge man living in the most challenge part of the world, from Jordan kingdom at the Mideast
when i established my optical store company all i have in my pocket was 100$ i didnt ask any bank for a loan and i manage to pay all i need from the income of my store.
Now after 7 years of hard working i start to open another company s in other fields. i benefit alot from your wisdom in the apprentice show even you are at the first country and i am from a 3rd country i understand the way of thinking you work on, and to recreate my big dreams at my small country

Dear Mr Trump

You have not yet had the pleasure of meeting me nor still I wonder if ever I will one day be a man like you, But my true reason why I know I am a champion, is cause I am good, God has paved my way cause I chose him. Dont get me wrong Mr Trump I aint coming up on some religious tip but I am serious when I say I am good, I am golden and I am game.

Single me out no!!! Now when you single me out, you taking my game, put me amoung the people so I can still shine!!!

Hi, Mr. Trump.
As a young boy i was taught that there are two types of youths in this world. Quiters and Winners, i am both a Winner and a Champion. I live in a foreign country without parental support, do manage to buy your inspirational books, pay my school fees, live a life full of hope and beat out challenges as they come on my way. However, a champion should have the following characteristics summerised from the word champion:
C; Couragous
H: Humulity/ Humble
A: Atitude ( Atitude determines autitude)
P: people partership (last time you did a book with Kiyosaki's team this shows that you have this quality)
O: Obedient/ Loyalty i believe most guys maintain their jobs at your firm coz they are loyal to you
N: Never give up spirit.
Hoping to listen from you and take care

Mr. Trump,

I am always happy to hear when you have a new book out, the reason I enjoy reading your books and following your career is because you are so tough as nails inspiring. I would love to have a copy of your latest book because not only will it good reading, but it will continually remind me that winners, like you, do not settle for least but the best and the only way to have the best is first by taking on the challenge.

As one of my friends said about me; is that I keep on keeping on no matter the difficulty and always keep my mind set on the outcome, the outcome ot achieving what others say is impossible. I believe it is possible to win this book and to arrive at my ultimate goal of financial success.

Thanks Mr. Trump for the opportunity, Sincerely,


Mary S. Butler

Hello champ Donald J. Trump...

you want to know why ? fine, I'll tell . everybody thinks Champions are those how made it big, but if you ask I'll tell the real Champion is someone never ever give up, learn form his actions and others what is right and what is wrong then apply what he learns on hemself and the others and keep teach it to everyone else , allways aiming for the moons and higher, when he wins he do it with honer and respect humpel making eveone else step back and wacthing arriving fo a real hero definning hemself by his action and just his achefment only not his word or others. and of course when he fall down he stand up faster thun before making it locks like a mircale can still happen here on earth .

Now how do I know that?Frist I learn it frim watch and read about Champions all over the world . Second, after I learn it I did it and kep and still doing untl I became one then keep dong more and more so I became bigger and better Champion everyday and everynight .


So I am gladelly honered to tell you I am alleardy a Champion , and if u send your book with generosity I,ll accept it with generosity too because it is not just from Champion to other, but also from big Champion to a rising Champion .

thanks very mush for helping me to became a gaint Champion by all means

Mr. Trump,
I read Think Like a Champion last week. I read it in a day and a half and it is marked up with pen, pencil, and highlighter. I am currently re-reading it. This is one of the finest books I have ever read; that says a lot because I am a voracious reader.

I had been trying to start a business and ran into nothing but obstacles; each one larger and larger. Then, an opportunity came along out of left field to start something else in the same industry. In June I will launch my business. Over one weekend, I formed a business plan, marketing plan, and realized that I already had a network of people who could help me with this business.

Why am I a champion? I have self confidence, forward momentum, and passion and enthusiasm for the things I do. I always look to see how others have succeeded and try to emulate their actions. Quit, won’t, and can’t, to hard, and too much work are not in my vocabulary. I seek solutions to problems instead of blame. I believe that a leader is part of the team and has to be as much of a team player as the rest; a leader must set the tone and the example. I do not make time for anger or hatred; they stop momentum and cloud clear thinking. Lastly, I do not dwell on things I cannot control. Sometimes you have to stop and, reassess, and take a different direction.

I want the copy of your book for my teenager. She can learn a lot from reading this.
PV Bella

Nine years ago I was a "stay and home" mother of three boys ages three, five and seven years old. Their father left us homeless and with a car that barely ran. Living in Los Angeles it was nearly impossible to survive without a car. Although I was deeply disappointed I found us a place to live, upgraded our car and raised my boys into respectful, hardworking young men without any help from their father who refused to pay child support.
My goal is to put my boys through college and get them on their way to prosperous lives and to start a foundation to help women who are in situations similar to mine as well as try to get to the bottom of why the child support services have failed and continue to fail to carry out the task of getting non custodial parents to help in the raising of their children whether financially or physically.

Success is multiplying positives.

Here's some of mine.

Made it to age 63!
Cancer survivor ... had 5 chemotherapy's in the last 7 years.
Still growing, improving, hoping, dreaming, praying, acting on behalf of myself and others.
Heck ... I'm a network television executive.

http://www.socool.com
http://socooltv.com/ning.com
http://weloveyourwebsite.com

etc. etc. etc.

Nine years ago I was a "stay and home" mother of three boys ages three, five and seven years old. Their father left us homeless and with a car that barely ran. Living in Los Angeles it was nearly impossible to survive without a car. Although I was deeply disappointed I found us a place to live, upgraded our car and raised my boys into respectful, hardworking young men without any help from their father who refused to pay child support. I have never collected welfare from the government. It was done by sacrificing luxuries and buying only what was necessary.
My goal is to put my boys through college and get them on their way to prosperous lives and to start a foundation to help women who are in situations similar to mine as well as try to get to the bottom of why the child support services have failed and continue to fail to carry out the task of getting non custodial parents to help in the raising of their children whether financially or physically.
After the hardships we have experienced my boys and I would love to read "Think Like a Champion" and gain some insight to help us in our future endeavors.

Dear Mr. Trump,

I am a champion because I persevere through adversity, I always prepare for the next challenge - for the next big thing - and I stay true to myself and my values. I see opportunities where others see problems, and I am a trailblazer of my time.

Although I come from a low-income background, I never underestimate my self-worth. Instead of using my background as an excuse for my shortcomings, I use it as motivation to achieve something greater than what I thought was possible. I was one of few back in high school to take more than 4 AP exams in a given year even though the maximum number of AP classes students can take is 4. While other students sneered at me for being an overachiever, I forged ahead and received enough credits to graduate from college in 3 years. I ended up staying for 4 years at Wellesley College because I received enough scholarships, grants and need-based aid to graduate without any debt, and I am proud to say that I am the first in my family to graduate from college.

At Wellesley I majored in Environmental Studies and Media Arts and Sciences because I love both subjects, and I took full advantage of the opportunities offered. First, seeking to expand alternative transportation options on campus, I submitted two winning grant proposals and received over $2500 to implement a campus community bike program. My work with the bike program has been featured in The Boston Globe Magazine, Positive Teens Magazine, among other publications, and on TV. Second, I enjoyed my introductory month-long robotics course so much that I expanded it to a semester-long independent study building a robot to compete in the Trinity College Firefighting Robot Contest. Not only did my team place 11th internationally, but we were also the only all-women team in the competition and we were the first from Wellesley to place in the finals. Third, I committed to practicing every week with Gund Kwok, the only Asian women lion and dragon dance troupe in the United States. As members of Gund Kwok, we demonstrate the strength and skill that women have to perform the lion dance, which is a martial art form traditionally denied to women because women were perceived to be weak and without discipline. After 4 years with the troupe, I grew stronger physically and mentally and I constantly pushed my boundaries. As a result, I was able to lift team members around my weight to do a shoulder sit - something I never imagined I could do. For each milestone I achieved, I experienced countless hardships and failures along the way but never gave up.

Two years after graduating, I now help the ECS Charity Fund, which is a non-profit organization employees at my company run that directly helps families and individuals in need, in addition to my full-time job. Not satisfied with only raising money to distribute later, I reached out to and successfully formed a partnership with CSN Stores, which is a booming e-commerce company that I worked for previously. As a result, the ECS Charity Fund can purchase items at a discount and save money to give to someone else in need. I also serve as the Co-Sponsorship Chair for the Asian American Women in Leadership Conference this year. Although it will be more difficult to raise money in these belt-tightening times, I am ready to rise up to the challenge and show that I can get results.

In the end, I am a champion because I think like one. I have not peaked, and I know I will continue to achieve increasingly greater accomplishments.

Thank you, Mr. Trump, for your time and consideration as well as for the insights and advice you impart to us all through your blog, books, and TV show. Because this is best expressed in Japanese, yoroshiku ongegaishimasu!

With a handshake,
Anita Yip

I deserved the Book Think Like a Champion because I have been thinking and living like one everyday.

My co-workers and employees have been asking me how can I remain calm when we have lost two day's pay to furlough days, the housing market is a mess, and my brother has lost his job?
For me it comes easy as I have learned without God, nothing is possible and if He believes in me and has given me the courage to endure no matter what is happening around me, then I cannot fail Him! Therefore I have the strenght and insight to reconstruct my finances, carry on my mission in my current job helphing those who are the victims of employers who fail to have workers' compensation insurance, encourage my employees to strive to do their best even though we are short staff and they have lost two day's pay, enocurage my brother to re-evaluate his stiuation and re-train himself in another career, and still find time to encourage my sponsered child in the Phillpines to stay in school and help others lest fortunate than myself.

Because I believe that with God I can handle any challenge put before me, I am the person who desrves your book Mr. Trump.

Deborah Strickland

I should receive a copy because I am an attorney representing children and parents who are losers. They are people whose families are so dysfunctional that the Department of Children and Families have removed the children from their homes. Despite this, I still have to succeed at my goal of paying off my debt and retiring even though I am 74 years old in three weeks. I am doing pretty well, I have managed to control my debt so that when I can sell the waterfront lot next door, I will come out ahead. However, I am in a race because holding my own until the lot sells means I keep working full time. I could use some advice about managing better. But I thank you for considering my request. Mary Jo

Dear Mr. Trump:
I have always told my children to "shoot for the stars". This adage has inspired them to obtain goals they never thought they could achieve. LIkewise, I believe that if one could "Think Like a Champion", one could break out of self-established "glass ceilings" and rise to new heights. So why would I like to receive a copy of your book? Because I am not afraid of finding out that I might learn something new that could positively affect my life. Because change is not a negative, but a positive, and only I can make that change. Because I believe sage advice is just that: hard won by someone who knows what loss is and by changing an attitude or the direction that one is taking can be the best thing that could happen to them. Why would I like to receive a copy of "Think LIke a Champion"? Because I want to excel to my star and I won't know how to effectively do that without reading your book. Please consider me a ready and willing pupil. Sincerely, Courageous Mom

I believe I have what it takes to be a champion. I have overcome numerous obstacles including three breast cancer episodes. I have come out of literally living in the getto under the rule of a slum landlord to moving up and out to a three bedroom home with a beautiful yard in a great neighborhood.

I run my own business part-time as well as work full-time as an accounts payable clerk.

I love life and I love what I do. And, at age 50, I have just begun to achieve the journey to my greatest success.

I am willing to put out for the next two years what most people won't, to be able to live the rest of MY LIFE the way most people can't! (I love that quote so much, I borrowed it)

Trump;

I am a Champion because i think like one. I believe that being a champion is a state of mind. One of the lessons that one of my mentors ( Al Thomas) taught me defines one who is a champion, NEVER EVER GIVE UP! Your books, along with Robert Kiyosaki's were some of the first that ignited my quest in to personal development and i just wish i had been taught or at least been exposed to some of this philosophies in "school". I am 19 years old, I have been building a network marketing business for the past 14 months and I LOVE IT!!! However, at this very moment i am not satisfied were i am and building this business is a challenge and that is why i am a champion. I really need and want your book (specially if it is signed by you) because I know that the lessons and wisdom that you share will propel my self, thus my business into another level of success.
I am really excited to learn from you in North Carolina this coming JUNE!!!!

Respectfully,
Julio Arreola

I DON'T ONLY THINK I AM A CHAMPION, MR. DONALD TRUMP, I KNOW I AM A ONE. MY NAME IS DANIELLE COLLINS AND I AM A CHAMPION BECAUSE I TAKE CHALLENGES THAT I AM GIVEN AND REACH BEYOND ANY GOALS THAT HAVE BEEN SET. I LOOK UP TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE, IN EVERY WAY. I HAVE MADE A BIG DECISION IN MY LIFE OVER THE LAST 6 MONTHS TO MOVE FOWARD WITH A COMPANY AND I KNOW I CAN BENEFIT GREALTY BY READING YOUR BOOK, TRAINING COMING DIRECTLY FROM YOU. I WANT TO TAKE THE TIME TO THANK YOU FOR EVEN HAVING THE HEART, TO SHARE SUCH GREATNESS WITH THE WORLD. I AM THANKFUL FOR WHO YOU ARE AS A PERSON AND BUSINESS MAN. YOU ROCK MR. TRUMP!
HUGS,

DANIELLE COLLINS

I have enjoyed watching the show and I appreciate the comments you make to contestants. One such comment stood out to me a few weeks ago when you told someone essentialy that "you should never volunteer to be fired". I appreciated that comment immensly based on a personal experience that I think every manager should have in thier experiences, that of being fired. I think it makes you more understanding of what employees go thru as well as the need to make decisions based on sound managment practices and not to delay.

I have worked in the health care industry for many years and unfortunatly, until the last 10 years, it was an industry ran by those with minimal education in business or managment. Yet, the field of health care is indeed a business and no longer present just for the sole purpose of healing the sick and less fortunate.

I think reading your book would be very beneficial as I continue to hone my managment skills and continue my quest to be a fair and just manager while keeping the health and welfare of the business I work for in mind.

Mr. Trump!
I am a Champion ,because I feel deep inside me,that I am.I prooved hundreds of times on the sports field that I am bringing that victory to my team.Now, I am trying to transfer my Championship feeling in building wealth(real challenge) and I need Champion to show me the way.Thank you!Gordana.

Dear Mr.Trump,
i am real champion. For the first 24 years i was living in european communistic country, brainwashed by marxist ideology. As kid, i undergo serious injury, after which people like me was usually institutionalized. For all that, today, in my 44, i am graduate, i have my own company, and i dream my "american dream" about relocate my life and business to USA.
Of course, your challenge is not about free book, and if you decide not send your book to me, i will purchase one, like i purchased two of your books previously.
This is about fact, that this book will be right from desk of my long term business icon.
There was one day, which i think change all my life - day, when i for the first time saw your stunning show The Apprentice. If you send me your book, this will be another boost for my work.
Thank you for all you doing, for all "lessons learned",
member Kamil

Dear Mr. Trump, my Dear Mentor

I believe, before claiming whether one is a champion or not, he must be able to define the word "champion" according to its own logic. What is the meaning of champion and who is a real champion?
i looked up the word "champion" in the dictionary, I found the meaning, "someone who has won the first prize in a competition, contest, or fight". I also checked other ideas and opinions quoted by different people about the definition of "champion" and the reasons why they believe they are champion. While reading, I found phrases like " I am champion because I have carved out several businesses for myself" or "because I am adventurous and challenging" or " because I took a huge risk" or " because I am well-educated, I study hard, read books and attend all seminars" or " because I am determined, serious, so and so ". I also found many more examples that it may takes several pages to be mentioned . Despite all these facts and phrases, I believe a real champion is a person who is the winner of his Inner creative battles, a person who is inner champion, a person who has won the biggest fight of all times, the fight against the biggest enemy of all human kind. I call this enemy "Resistance " you may call it "evil". All of us have two lives. The life we live and the unlived life within us. Between these two lives stands resistance (evil). It’s the most toxic force on the planet because it prevents us from achieving the life which is filled with happiness and wealth. I am CHAMPION because I’ve defeated my inner "Resistance". I am champion because I’ve defeated procrastination, fear, gossip, alcohol, sex, unhappiness, self-doubt, isolation, excuses, showoff, hesitation, ego and other forms and faces of "Resistance". Without being inner champion, which is real champion, it’s impossible to become successful. If you have carved out many businesses, if you’ve got the guts to take huge risks, if you study hard and you are a serious person and if you have gathered enormous amount of wealth, then good job, bravo, you are successful but in the mean time you may not be a champion.being champion takes more effort and determination than being successful.if you have also defeated your "Resistance" then with no doubt you are a real champion.

Best Regards.

First of all, Mr. Trump I want to tell you that you are an absolutely amazing man and I respect you and your characteristics more than any other human I have ever known, seen or read about. I grew up in the midwest small town graduated in 1975 when parents, schools, society here did not encourage females to go to college...there were no career days or college prep days. I did the traditional marry my high school sweetheart at 17 moved from a town of 200 to the heart of San Diego...throughout life I managed to become a hopeless enabler...raised 11 kids (8 weren't mine) and still have an amazingly intelligent 15 year old beautiful daughter at home. At 36 I went back to school and got my Bachelor's in Business Admin with seven kids at home, an abusive alcoholic partner, and full time job. I left the alcoholic behind in 2001 finished up my degree in 2004...now at the age of 51 I found that the years of being an enabler destroyed any possibility of getting ahead even with that degree...I had given up hope until I started watching and learning from you. I am 51 years old, work 3 jobs, have a child at home and I own absolutely nothing, have no credit card and live off the tips I make at one of my 3 jobs. I am a very intelligent woman...just spent too much time taking care of other people and their problems...now I want to take care of me with your help. When you told Ti "never put your self up for execution" it was like you were talking to me and the life I gave up by being an enabler. Thank you for inspiring me. It is probably too late, but I won't give up. I would be thrilled to receive your book. SAW

I know I am worthy of your book because I am just beginning to learn to sell my great idea for a company. I know that you would value your book being my first means of reference for the best way of thinking to accomplish my goals! I would only have you to thank for my success! Your book will be the best possible beginning for me,and I believe your curious as to what someone might do with this book being their first start! Having nothing in mind to clutter my thinking,no habits or hang-ups, I'm asking you,RESPECTFULLY to please MOLD MY WAY OF THINKING!
I trust you will do the right thing,and I am thanking you,in advance,for your book! And your confidence in THE AMERICAN DREAM!
GOD BLESS YOU,MR.TRUMP!

Dear Mr. Trump:

I appreciate this opportunity to have and learn from your signed book " Think like a Champion".
I have read the previous 300 responses, so I will keep it short and to the point.
Thinking like a Champion is both a mindset and daily process. It is forcasting your future business
while preparing your next day "in your head" before going to bed. It encompasses every aspect of
our lives- accomplishments in both work and outside endeavors (part time work, sports, volunteer & charity work, etc.).
All should be approached the same way!
After recently losing both my mother (last parent) and being laid off of my full time job in sales,
I am able to survive while I wait for the job market to open with my part time job (Game Day & Events Supervisor) for our NFL team . I put myself into every event with the same mindset as my previous high sales awards. Still, I have the same bills (mortgage, utilities,etc.).
"One door closes another opens-may not be the same but stay with it.
Because I stayed positive and seized the opportunitiy, I was selected to work both this years' Super Bowl (Tampa) and Final Four (Detroit).
Your book,"Think Like A Champion" is something I would really like to own.

Michael H. (Maryland)

Dear Mr Trump

Thank You for paying forward the challenges of your life to me , it has been a great help on the rebuilding road of my life. reading your books has given me the encouragement to push harder . We come from people who will never "give ground " never give up ! Do I want something for free, "no" but I will accept your gift. I am currently looking for a Commercial / Office project in Vancouver , the Financing is tough right now . We will have to buy right and juggle investors , but we will get the DEAL done ! The timing couldn't be better.
Yours Truly
Michael MacMeil
Castlebay Development Inc.
Vancouver B.C Canada

"Remember the those who once we came" Donald !

Mr. Trump-

I am a champion because over the past few years of reading your books, watching you in action on The Apprentice, attending a few of your varying Trump Institute and Trump University seminars, I have paid for my own way through college, and upon graduating with my degree in economics, will have the education and know how of following my gut and not surrounding myself with people who will bring me down, to aspire to great things. My life and success may not be based upon luxurious real estate, but I have learned from you about doing what makes me happy to enjoy life.

See you at the top,

Colt Ables
Arlington, TX

I keep thinking and thinking and to the only conclusion I arrive is that you are born being a champion. To be a champion you need to be born with some abilities. Since i was little i was only focused in my ideas and i would never let anyone to tell me that i was wrong. Champions are the people that perhaps of all contradictions they fight for being the best in everything, always thinking beyond your adversaries minds.

Perhaps of my age i always fight for my ideals and always trying to be the best in every aspect. All those abilities that you re born with turns you into a winner and with time into a champion.

I was born with the abilities and now i am a winner and with some effort, a champion.

Mr.Trump, I don't consider myself a REAL CHAMPION,yes I'm a champion but my brother inlaw is a True Champion,this is a man that anyone who knows him would look up to.This is a man who has saw death and spit in his eye twice,he has Leukemia and is in recovery, the first time he found out he was sick he was in isolation for over 6 months during the first treatment,then a few years later he got a staph infection that shut his body down and he went into a coma,the priest gave him last rights,because his body turned totally black.Due to some divine intervention,he came out of it to the suprise of everyone,but due to the infections he has lost both legs below the knees and his dominate hand. During his therapy his determination and his aggressiveness astounded everyone.This is a real man that doesn't let anything get him down,he is a real inspiration thats why I'm training for a marathon in his honor.So if you think he deserves one of you books I can get you his address in Iowa city,his name is John Marks and he works at ROCKWELL in Cedar Rapids.

Http://pages.teamintraining.org/wi/nikes09/lsmith8rzt

Thank you very much,

Sincerely, Leonard Smith

Mr. Trump
I would like to have a signed copy of your new book to go with my other signed copy of How to get Rich. I have a number of your books and take your advice and comments to heart. I am glad you’re here in the USA to help others to achieve goals that might otherwise be left behind. I started a consultant company in the power generation market in 2007 now thanks in part to you. Why not listen to a billionaire who is willing to help others, I hope I can do the same someday as I plan to grow our company. I do know God is in all the details; as you outlined in one of your books. PS. If for some reason I don't get a signed copy I will continue to be fan of Trump.

Larry Johnson
www.gsionsite.com

Mr. Trump

Thanks for the signed book.

Regards,
Joseph

Dear Donald,

The real challenge is to get your book sent to me signed by you. The challenge of to days economy is something, People are laid off and others are wondering how can I make that dollar with out loosing it. Easy answer if you have done your home work. I have read almost all of your books and your advise in your books is what can and will help people if they truly read them with a open mind. So with this being said you have my address I will be waiting for your book. Real champions don't fail, they may fall.but get back up and go another way.It's not what you have in life, it's what you get that makes you the champion.

Keep writing your books.I as well as other enjoy reading them and putting that dollar in your pocket.

Sincerely,

Lawanda

I turn 50 and drive to Boston from Montreal to meet The Donald and Robert K at the learning annex.
Upon my return I put my sign Company, my home, my Harleys and the rest up for sale, all but the house is gone. I'm off to freeport Grand Bahamas August 2009, one of the few Islands that has not been over exploited and while Bobby Ginn is dying at 2.5million a crack, I'm staying small and high end. I believe that making them feel like a millionaire for 350,000$ can still work(must have been something someone said in a book). Anyways, I'm glad I got to see and listen to the greatest SOB in business, a great father and a man with a big heart. It was worth the trip. Maybe one day I'll get to meet you and have some Trump rub off on me.

Thanks....The Charles

Dear Mr. Trump:

As a student studying business administration at university I do not have much "street" sense business experience, with the exception of stocks and other financial securities and derivatives. However, I am what one would call a social entrepreneur in the sense that I take leadership roles at my university as well as in community affairs, typically providing my finance and business knowledge to help benefit the organization.

A champion, to me, is an individual that is able to overcome a challenge that most people would stop shortly after starting or not even attempt, and change the lives of others in the process. I have become a member of many groups that have struggled financially and with recruitment. As a champion I carried out a fundraising activity for one organization that consisted of 15 youth members and raised $2,000 in less than a two hour period of time and increased our membership to 32 members the following year. Although these may seem like small numbers, they are relatively large for a small farming community. In doing so, light was created for individuals that never saw the light before. These dollars were used to provide youth in the surrounding area the opportunity to travel to developmental conferences that they would otherwise be unable to afford or attend due to their distance.

I have had the opportunity to read Think Like a Billionaire and Think Big & Kick Ass, for which both have been an inspiration to me and have help me in developing my business acumen in both a social and non-social entrepreneurial context. I look forward to reading your new book Think Like a Champion and even more so a signed copy. It will be great to use your insight for further personal development because it has help so much in making me who I am today.

With Thanks,
MK

Well I like to keep things simple and to the point so I'll say this, I'm a champion because I never let myself slack off, don't get me wrong there are times when I do less and know it, but it's never without pain and gain is always glorious. I'm entering the financial business at a time when supposedly everything is going to the dogs, but our team is doing fantastic, I'm doing fantastic and although I may not measure up financially to some people on this post I'm very happy with the progress I'm making and the income I'm producing. I am begining to see the light, there are many levels above this and just that alone is motivation enough.

-Joseph
World financial Group
Edmonton

I am operate a real estate project , and the price is the top of Nan Ning city . GuangXi,China. I need such book to find some Inspirations. so this book is a big help to me I think,. thank you ! Trump!!

Thank you very much for this challenge! More than anything else I've written in a long time, writing the essay for this challenge a few days back made me realize that I was really and truly a champion. This realization has changed my life for the better. I expect more from myself than I have in the past few years. Hope that everyone who has contributed has the same experience!

For two years trying to get hold of you! Yeah.... That makes a champion. Instead of just reading and writing, take some time to respond?

Too bad though. OMP is doing well although, it could have been yours. Then again, only you could throw a billion doller business away.

Mr. Trump,

I think every person who has tried to define as briefly as possible the champion that lies in himself realized once again the great service you bring to us all, regardless if we are all lucky enough to receive a signed edition from you. Like a real mentor does.

I am a champion because:

1. I never lose the focus on the End!

2. People used to call me a dreamer even since I was a little child, and now they’ve realized that not only I can build castles in the sky, I also put a foundation under them!

3. I perceive excellence as a habit, not an act. I will never give a 100%, it will always be more!

4. I love problems when they come along; it always means that I can learn something!

5. I know there are no excuses, just reasons!

6. I know, that I can be better that I am, I’m constantly working on it and I love it!

7. I never forget where I came from, I always give a hand when I can, and it is one of my best rewards!

8. I know I am the only one who can control where I am! And I never settle!

9. I have a good instinct!

10. People perceive me as one!

Thank you Mr. Trump for giving me the opportunity to learn so much from you!

Best regards,

Mioara Petre

Mr. Trump,

I deserve to be singled out receive a signed copy of your book because I am committed to not only thinking like a champion, but becoming one for myself, my family, and for others.

To me, being a champion is not striving for fame, fortune, and notoriety - - what a lot of people do strive for. Those things are byproducts of the efforts and attitudes of champions. Champions have an attitude, a passion to live life to its fullest. Champions never give up. Champions wake up every day ready and willing to meet life's challenges head-on.

I feel I model most of what it takes to be a true champion. I possess a resiliency to be content with the status quo and a burning passion to do big things that not only shape my future, but the future of others.

So far, I have only read two of your books: Think BIG and Kick Ass, and Wealth Building 101. From these books alone, you have taught me so much and you have become someone I look up to and can emulate.

Receiving a signed copy of your book "Think Like a Champion" would mean the absolute world to me and would further fuel my determination to succeed and do great things.

Thank you for everything you have done for me thus far!

Sincerely,

Bryan M. Smith

My priceless salute to you mr. Trump . i am a student from Equatorial guinea , studying chemical engineering at vaal university of technology in South africa. Eventhough i am a science incline student ,i have a great passion towards business. And i believe i am a champion because i have never left a stage in the course of my education without innovation. I am towards attaining a cum-laude at present. I will like to be like you some day , in another words you are my role model. please i sublimely need a book signe by you in other to believe i am working towards the rigth direction to my dreams.

I feel like a champion because in the the last 10 years I have gone throught a lot of hardships, the ending of my 10 year business and marriage at the same time. I have taken these experiences and I am working on turning my life around both in business and my personal life, that's why I have joined the Trump University, I will not let one failed business stop me from achieving my goals.

Thank you

Champion Challenge? You are no champion, Mr Trump. You are no winner. You are no heroic figure. And you proved it this last week on your little show, Celebrity Apprentice.

You proved to every woman on this earth, that it doesn't matter how hard you work, how smart you are, how creative you are, what you accomplish, the only thing that matters, when it comes to women, is who they slept with and how much money they can make doing or having done so.

Once again, a male "role model" proved that the most important thing for a woman to prove is how excited she can get a male penis to be.

Every day, the world is subjected to watching women with talent who get the fame, the wealth and the power because of that hard work and expertise then turn around and use it to become a stripper role model. In America, the message they send, and that you sent, is that the only reason to develop talent, to acquire these things, is to become a prostitute for the world's males to masturbate to.

But you didn't quite do that did you? You started with a prostitute and you showed "women" their place, didn't you? Well, Mr Trump, you and Kramer pretty much proved your place too. Namely, that you are nothing but pimps.

People say the oldest profession on earth is that of a prostitute. But they are wrong. The oldest profession is that of the pimp. And you can count yourself among the most famous ones.

But that wasn't the only "message" you sent. You rewarded a woman who works for organized criminals, conning people out of their money. You ignored the failures of the con artist, and punished the woman who was the honest one, who recognized and told the truth, who said it like it was.

Your message: I promote sluts. I promote cons. I admire women who sell their bodies and I despise those who use their heads. I admire thieves and liars and I despise the loud mouths who speak the truth and would never steal.

Then Kramer had the audacity to call the victim of your trial a sore loser? She speaks for every single woman who has ever been fired because the boss wanted another woman because he liked what she did to his penis, and another woman because she could steal money for him and he wouldn't have to work. I am a sore loser too when it comes to losing to injustice.

I was a very sore loser when the cons who hijacked those four airliners crashed them on September 11, 2001.

I am a very sore loser when I hear the Taliban make it a criminal offense to not let their husbands rape them twice a week so as to keep them impregnated every 9 months.

I am a very sore loser when I learn Moslem Arabs, your buddies, refuse to allow women driver's licenses, go see a doctor, go out without a male relative or work.

I was a very sore loser on August 25, 2001 when I encountered an al-qaeda leader at my Bay store at my local mall, dragging his wife 6 ft behind in a burka, she hunched over from the weight of the tentlike fabric and the 90 degree heat and high humidity, while he, dressed like a Wall Street executive hand in hand with his little boy in a nice crisp fresh shirt and shorts, were headed into the women's loungerie department to get her some underwear so he could have sex before and celebrate the upcoming 911 event.

He didn't beat his wife with his fists. He didn't have to. The burka was her cross, and she was as hunched over as I was a few thousand years ago. And she knew, on her way to that department where her "husband" was going to show his 5 year old son how to buy bras and panties for her, that afterwards, she could count on being nailed when she got home.

You're no different from that al-qaeda terrorist leader or the Taliban. Are they champions? They think so. They think they have the right to beat women who make too much noise walking down the street - and you think the same of those who dare to do so too walking down Wall St. They too judge others based on the height of the PANYC.

Letter I sent to Jim Cramer when I copied him my prior letter to you on this blog topic:

The Stock Market as a Barometer of the Successful US President???

You witnessed the beginning of the "second" 911 event. The one started by Barack House-In Osama. The "recession" his moslem buddies tried to start by jacking up the price of oil. The "recession" his banking buddies followed up with by shutting down the credit market when the hijacked oil prices didn't work. All so he could get a job, all so he could get a white house.

It ain't over yet.

You remember the first 911? Do you remember the name of the lead terrorist? The man named Atta? Do you remember his main victim? Manhatta? Do you remember the video tape Osama made right after that attack, when he lamented the fall of the Ottoman empire?

Your Man Auto towers haven't collapsed yet.

I am not surprised you think "gamblers", lazy bums who make money gambling money they stole from others, lazy bums who send messages to the politicians using other people's money, get to decide when the time comes for the recession to end, or how low or high the rubble of the twin towers needs to go do you?

But hey, maybe you think the prostitute, gamblers and con artists get to decide when, where and who is victorious. But I'll tell you decides. His name is God. And He decided that the name Nicholas meant "victorious people". He decided what the name NYC means. He decided what the other "nickname" for Nicholas, i.e. Cole, meant. And He decides when the recession is over, not the spokesmen and doers of evil.

You all had your say in starting the collapse of American's real World Trade Centre, America's largest twin towers, but you don't get to decide how and when they are rebuilt, any more than Osama did. Or Obama wants them to be - namely the second after he's got his 9 trillion dollars of unaccountable spending a blank cheque so he can go on a spending spree to get himself a resume.

Obama got a job, and a white house, while millions lost theirs. You don't really think that people who are broke should go out and buy a Rolls Royce and a mansion, but that's exactly what your president did. He decides when the recession is over? He is the measure of it? Get your head out of your a--.
I witnessed your pimping of one prostitute last week, and witnessed your ignoring the corruption of a gambling con. And you judged another as a sore loser. Well, you were judged too. You may pimp women, but when it comes to Obama, you're just another one of his groupies and junkies.

When Jon Stewart, another of Obama's hookers, blamed you for the recession, he was just outraged that the object of his obsession looked bad and he was looking for someone to blame. You never caused the recession. It was the object of both your obsessions who did. The man who has so little scruples, that he imbedded subliminal messages on his web site during his campaign for president, the same man who accused Bush of using that big sign "Victory" on a ship to send a subliminal message by the use of that giant sign. Only Obama's subliminal messages were only capturable by people like me, with "slow" high-speed internet connections. So slow I could video tape them and video capture them.

I have to wonder though, how much use he is making subliminal messaging now. It's hard to stop p