His self-confidence led him to build a lot of large building projects in New York the bigger you build the richer you become like that his mother underlying all the success is a fierce determination Donald Trump has been bankrupt several times most notably in 1999 when he told about $8 billion but it wasn't as big a disaster as it could have been because he wouldn't give up each time he has come back more successful than before as the saying goes the harder you fall the higher you bounce