"Ellison possessed no vision of the future, no great plan to conquer the software industry. His sole motivation was to be his own boss." [Source: https://archive.org/details/differencebetwee00wils_0/page/58/mode/1up]
"A year later Ellison made Overstreet his executive assistant. She was everything he wasn't: punctual, detail-oriented, thorough, discreet in her communications. Ellison never had an organized day in his life (in that way he was a typical entrepreneur)." [Source: https://archive.org/details/differencebetwee00wils_0/page/114/mode/1up]
Ti:
"'I was not suited to being able to work my way up the corporate ladder.' He had the same problems in business that he had experienced in school: 'If people asked me to do things that didn't make sense, I just couldn't do [them]. I couldn't start my own school, but I could start my own company.'" [Source: https://archive.org/details/differencebetwee00wils_0/page/58/mode/1up]
Ellison: "The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life."
Ellison: "When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts."
Fe:
"Ellison's charms were such that even the aggrieved pastor said he still liked him. As a friend of Charles Foster Kane's says in Citizen Kane, '[It's] not that Charlie was ever brutal. He just did brutal things.'" [Source: https://archive.org/details/differencebetwee00wils_0/page/9/mode/1up]
"He could dazzle people with his insights and madden them with his lies. He was [someone] who could delight audiences with his colorful speeches." [Source: https://archive.org/details/differencebetwee00wils_0/page/9/mode/1up]
"He had a lot in common with Churchill: ... both were witty, insatiably curious, and charming when it suited them. ... He shared at least one other trait with Churchill: Both men were masterful manipulators of public opinion who were motivated largely by self-interest. In 1898 the young Churchill wrote his mother, 'I do not care so much for the principles I advocate as for the impression which my words produce & the reputation they give me. This sounds very terrible. But you must remember that we do not live in the days of Great Causes.' Ellison's story about his college career was Churchillian in that sense." [Source: https://archive.org/details/differencebetwee00wils_0/page/33/mode/1up]
"As outstanding as FDR's upbeat temperament was his clear willingness to trick people to get his way. He prided himself on his ability to handle others shrewdly and was willing to manipulate people. Crafty and sly, he was able to persuade others to his viewpoint but would also employ bullying or flattery. Not surprisingly, some perceived him as egotistical and self-centered. He would bend or break rules to his best advantage. He was alert to clues that reveal how others are thinking or feeling and seemed aware of the impression he made on others. Yet he wouldn't let others know if he did not like them."
"He used strong-arm tactics, flattery, and trickery to get his way more than any other president. He showed an exceptional willingness to distort facts or lie, and was markedly deceitful, unscrupulous, underhanded, cunning, and sly. He prided himself on his ability to 'handle' people, and he was highly persuasive, using virtually any means to his ends."
In general IDRlabs terms, ESTPs are the type of people who like to come up with techniques (Ti) to navigate external social situations (Fe) in order to shrewdly adapt to, and in some cases leverage, the current ever-changing situation (Se). Trump fits this perfectly:
Peter Theil: "He's very charismatic, but it's because he sort of knows exactly what to say to different people to put them at ease.”
Scott Adams: "I noticed in [Donald Trump] the skills that I've developed over decades for persuasion but at a higher level than I've ever seen. He's the most persuasive living human that I've ever experienced. And I mean that in terms of actual technique. He's full of technique and it's all the time."
Jon Stewart: "He knows how to channel the frustrations of an audience. He knows how to read a room. He knows what the room is feeling and he can articulate it back to them and they understand it."
Lack of Fi:
"Ellison was not one to make public displays of deep emotion — or private ones either. Whatever he really felt about Bob's death was bound to stay locked inside him, a thundering heart in a stainless steel cage." [Source: https://archive.org/details/differencebetwee00wils_0/page/270/mode/1up]
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