At $25,000 per minute, advice from Donald Trump doesn’t come cheap.
That didn’t stop thousands of fans from attending a Sunday lecture in New York by the real estate mogul, who received $1.5 million for the hour-long speech.
Trump, star of NBC’s “The Apprentice,” urged listeners to be aggressive and remain suspicious of advisers.
“When somebody challenges you, fight back,” he said, according to published reports. “Be brutal, be tough, just go get them.”
Aspiring dealmakers should work with others while maintaining a competitive edge, he told the crowd at the Learning Annex event, which cost between $100 and $500 per ticket.
“Get the best people and don’t trust them,” he said. “Work with them, but they have to have respect for you.”
Hey, Paul McCartney, I need some ‘Help!’ with this
Ben Okuly thought he was ready to propose to his girlfriend, but first he needed Paul McCartney’s approval.
Okuly was attending one of the former Beatle’s concerts in Auburn Hills, Mich., outside Detroit, when he held up a sign that caught the McCartney’s eye: “CAN BEN ASK MELISSA TO MARRY HIM?”
During the concert last week, McCartney spotted it and read it out loud, The Detroit News reported Friday.
“Well, go on, get down on your knees and ask her, Ben!” McCartney ordered. Okuly did, and she said yes.
“Well, that’s a first for me,” the former Beatle quipped of the in-concert engagement. “And I hope it’s a last for you, Ben.”
The 26-year-old library employee hatched the plan when he and his girlfriend, Melissa Steele, were driving from Ohio to the concert.
“To have Paul McCartney be there and start the proposal, I really don’t have words to describe what that was like,” Steele told the newspaper.
Associated Press
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