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The art of the deal

Posted by ESC on April 07, 2009 at 14:26

In Reply to: The art of the deal posted by Michael Koppy on April 07, 2009 at 11:27:

: I'm trying to fid the origins of the phrase "The art of the deal". Yes, yes the insufferable self-promoter Donald Trump had a 1987 ghost-written self-aggrandizing book titled with the phrase. But I can not find any reference to the first coinage.

Two references -- The Yale Book of Quotations and The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Fifth Edition -- have a quote from Trump's book Art of the Deal. But I'm with you, no way he is the originator. Maybe his ghostwriter.

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