Donald Trump The Apprentice
by Katrina Karan: Donald Trump
The psychology of winning at all costs, Donald Trump's three rules of winning, brutal but powerful. In 'The Apprentice,' a young Donald Trump, played by Sebastian Stan, is taken under the wing of Roy Cohn, one of the most feared and influential lawyers in New York. Early in the
Transcript (en)
I got three rules, okay? They're my three rules of winning. Rule one, the world is a mess, okay? The world is a mess, Tony. You have to fight back. You have to have a tough skin. Attack, attack, attack. If somebody comes after you with a knife, you shoot him back with a bazooka, okay? Rule two, what is truth, Tony? What is truth? You know what's truth? What you say is truth, what I say is truth, what he says is truth. What is the truth in life? Deny everything, admit nothing. You know what's true? What I say is true. And third of all, and most important, no matter how f*** you are, you never, ever, ever admit defeat. You always claim victory. Always. You know, that sounds like the U.S. foreign policy for the past quarter century. Well, unlike that, this actually works. And I won a lot, Tony. I won a lot. and even when they said I didn't, I still turned it into a win, and that was the difference. So, how'd you combine these set of rules? Well, I have an instinct, Tony. I have a killer instinct. I always have. Listen, Tony, you have to have a natural ability. I'm a big believer in natural ability, and a lot of that is genetics. You have to be born with it, you know, and some people aren't, and some people are, and that's the difference. You have to have it.
