I wasn’t feeling particularly wanton this week and I’m passing on Wanton Wednesday this time around, so I decided to play this meme that Veronica has done a couple of times before.  The names suggest similar content, but don’t let names fool you.

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Hi and welcome to Wednesday Wickedness! We are like other memes in that we will ask you ten questions each and every Wednesday. But our little “twist” is that each week we will pick a famous person and pick ten of their quotes. Each of our questions will be based on the quotes. The quotes are in bold. Got it? Great! Let’s begin this week’s meme!

Today we picked Donald Trump. Here’s Wednesday Wickedness!

1. “A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn’t exactly been one of moderation.”
Do you live your life by moderation or extremes?

Moderation, definitely.  I did more than my share of over-indulging in certain substances in my younger days.  Politically, fiscally, emotionally, I prefer to avoid the extremes!

2. “All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.”
Have you ever thought someone was flirting with you in a work environment? What happened?

Not in my present work in environment, not that I can recall.  When Veronica and I were first married I worked at as a personal trainer at an athletic club while I was going to grad school, there was A LOT of flirting there.  If only we had an open marriage then…

3. “As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
Have you ever “thought big” and you wound up crashing and burning?

I’m usually pretty measured and deliberate in the risks I take- remember that stuff about being moderate?  But now that I think of it, I have a couple of pretty good scars from stupid moves to try on my bike which lead to some literal crashes!

4. “Everything in life is luck.”
Do you believe in luck? If not, do you feel it all happens to us for a reason?

No, I believe that your future is what you make it.  Sit around waiting for luck to help you and you’re setting yourself up for a lifetime of disappointment.

5. “Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.”
Have you ever benefited big time because you declined an offer, investment, job (Well you get the idea.)?

Absolutely.  When my enlistment in the Army was coming to an end a decade or so ago, my boss at the time offered me a  nice comfortable civilian position with Uncle Sam.  But he and I both knew that I had more potential and ambition, so he also wrote me a letter of recommendation for the doctoral program I wanted to apply to.  Today I have my Ph.D.,  make almost 1.5x what that job would have paid, and both personally and professionally couldn’t be happier.

6. “I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.”
Tell us about someone that you know that has all the money they need.

Back in those same enlisted days, Veronica worked as the HR director for a chain of daycare centers and I worked for them part-time as a handyman.  The company is owned by a husband and wife team, he’s a former exec with a big investment firm and they most definitely are NOT hurting for money!

7. “I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it’s time America was run like a business.”
Do you think running your country like a business would be a good thing?

You’re damn right I do.  Not every single thing that the gov’t does has to break even financially, but on the whole it’s not exactly a bad idea!  Our national debt is staggering and unless we make some tough decisions it’s only going to get worse.  And paying more taxes is NOT the type of tough decision I have in mind, some things have to go.

8. “I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is.”
Do you live in the past in any way?

No, I try to keep my focus on the future while doing my best to learn from the past.

9. “If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.”
How are you at balancing work and pleasure?

Considering that I’m on vacation this week, for no other reason than I had the vacation time to burn, I think I do pretty good!  When I leave work at the end of the day, I do my best to literally leave work.  I’m dedicated and committed to doing a good job, but I don’t take my job home with me.

10.“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”
Tell us about a time that you won the battle but lost the war.

I can’t really say that I’ve ever been in a war, much less lost one.  I can recall my grad school adviser relenting and let me try something I was really pushing for, but in his own way he did so to teach me a lesson, which I learned when my idea failed!

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