It must be pretty sweet to be Ivanka Trump. She’s gorgeous, successful, and the daughter of one of the richest and most powerful men, Donald Trump. According to CNBC, in her new book The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life, Ivanka admits that she benefits from nepotism, but that anyone is capable of achieving success.
In the book, the 27-year-old real estate mogul writes about what she has learned from her privileged upbringing and offers advice to young women on how to focus at work, negotiate with conviction and passion and how to thrive in uncertainty. “We’ve all been dealt a winning hand,” Ivanka writes, “and it is up to each of us to play it right and smart.”
She also includes what she calls “Bulletins from my Blackberry,” snippets advice from other successful businesspeople she admires, including hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, Arianna Huffington (cofounder and editor of the Huffington Post); Jonathan Tisch, Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels; Cathie Black, president of Hearst magazines; and Chris DeWolfe, cofounder of MySpace.
You have to admit that she knows what she’s talking about. Ivanka oversaw the construction of a new $450 million hotel condominium in downtown New York, and she also recently launched her own upscale jewelry line, The Ivanka Trump Collection, with a boutique on New York’s Madison Avenue.
“The message I take in from the people who inspire me is that success isn’t something that happens to you; you happen to it,” she writes. I still think her dad has something to do with it all though …
Comments
Katy
October 13th, 2009 - 12:48:10 PM
What a joke. No, not everyone has been "dealt a winning hand." Believe it or not, not everyone is born into a life of wealth and privilege, Ivanka Trump. Not everyone is friends with powerful CEOs, editors and business owners, nor do they have the connections to go to the best schools, to start their own businesses or to do whatever the fuck it is that Ivanka Trump does. Lady, you may be smart, I have no idea, and you may work hard too, but your success completely comes from your rich-ass dad, and don't you pretend otherwise. Had you grown up in poverty, you'd be grinding away each day just like the rest of us. You don't think we work hard? What a bitch.