Being a successful businessman does not qualify you to be President, on the contrary, it often disqualifies you. The characteristics of a good businessman are antithetical to those of a successful politician because the criteria for success of a business and a nation are not the same. Businesses need to be profitable and to grow, it is not their mission to make their employees happy. In fact, the employees are expendable when they no longer contribute to profitability and growth. Businessmen, or those who wish they were businessmen, may not agree with me but that is precisely why they should not be political leaders.

Now I concede that some of the characteristics of a business leader would be useful to a politician, such as being a good administrator and organizer. But business enterprises are not nations. Their mission statements are fundamentally different.