What's the difference between being a successful businessman and a successful president? For starters a successful businessman needs to focus almost exclusively on expanding the bottom line, and the bottom line is almost always money, profits. A president, to be successful, must focus on the people, they are the bottom line. If the businessman loses profits he regroups and works to rebuild profits, but if a president loses profits, those are peoples lives.
A businessman cannot become too wedded to any particular product line. If the line is not successful, he needs to drop it in favor of a line that is more popular. A president cannot drop a segment of the society for any reason. A businessman needs to consider offshoring production in the search for profits. A president cannot offshore anything, but must look to bring more onshore.
A businessman might find it necessary to declare bankruptcy to save his business, and can do that multiple times in his career and still find willing investors if he's got a plan for success. A president simply doesn't have that option. America survives and prospers because it is the safest investment in the world. To lose that distinction would be disastrous to our economy and our ability to borrow in the future. For the successful businessman its just a bump in the road. There is little in the experience of a businessman to prepare him for the presidency.
A president must negotiate as does the businessman, but the businessman can easily walk away from an unpleasant negotiation because there is almost always another option, but for the president, most often, there is no other acceptable option but to negotiate or face unwanted conflict. The businessman negotiates for profit, but the president negotiates out of necessity. That's why no successful businessman, elected to the presidency, in our history, has ever been a successful president.
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