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" Chabad is very important because without Jewish education, Diaspora Jewry would disappear. "

Harry Triguboff

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" The market is good when the local people are in it and believe in it and support it. That's what I want. "

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" We looked into and tested the Airbnb website and found the inquiries generated were at price points substantially lower than the market is prepared to pay us directly. It was clear that there were no real synergies between the level of our offering and what Airbnb clientele is looking for. "

Harry Triguboff

" I employ thousands of people, maybe 5,000 or 6,000. In my mind, they are all doing well. Because if they are not doing well in their minds, I'm not as strong as I could be. "

Harry Triguboff

" There's always room for an operator like Airbnb, but it's quite a different thing to my serviced apartments. Airbnb is a different market - it has nothing to do with me. "

Harry Triguboff

" We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school. "

Harry Triguboff

" When the unions were fighting me 45 years ago, they could never beat me. "

Harry Triguboff

" I tried all my life to make housing affordable. The more affordable the house, the more money I make. "

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" I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often. "

Harry Triguboff

" Local councils are hostile to large developers and think that, by doing this, they are standing up for the community. But they're wrong. "

Harry Triguboff

" I never built houses, only apartments. "

Harry Triguboff

" My interest is in the Wests Tigers. Nobody can support a team that is all the time on the bottom; that's a waste of time. "

Harry Triguboff

" The newspapers were against me. They were telling me that the Australian dream was a home. But that dream became worse and worse as they had to live further away from the city. My dream became better as we could build higher and higher. "

Harry Triguboff

" My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell. "

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" The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years. "

Harry Triguboff

" I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything. "

Harry Triguboff

" I don't think I have to combat Airbnb. It is like comparing Tiffany to a shop that sells things for one dollar. "

Harry Triguboff

" The government should spend more time on promoting tourism in Sydney. "

Harry Triguboff

" I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay. "

Harry Triguboff

" I looked around, and I saw cottages everywhere. I thought it was time they lived in apartments. "

Harry Triguboff

" I'm a businessman, that's all. "

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" If the banks become unreliable lenders, apartment prices will drop dramatically. "

Harry Triguboff

" This is a lifetime job. You don't look at it, you know, now and then. It doesn't really matter. When the market comes down, then I buy my land very cheaply, so I make my money on that. "

Harry Triguboff

" A developer who is not optimistic shouldn't be a developer. "

Harry Triguboff

" In this business, you don't have to be an architect or an engineer or a brick layer. But you have to understand how the money flows. That you can only understand if you're on the site. "

Harry Triguboff

" I'm easy. Very easy. I'll tell you why I am easy. If someone is no good, I get rid of them. It is no good being tough on somebody who can't do the job. If he can do the job, then there is no point in being tough with him. "

Harry Triguboff

" People have lots of money in super, but they have no money in the bank, and the super funds are not built to help people buy property. "

Harry Triguboff

" We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time. "

Harry Triguboff

" I deal in volume. To sell volume, it must be affordable. So that's my whole life, is to make it affordable. "

Harry Triguboff

" The newspapers were always against me in the beginning because they thought I was depriving people of what they wanted. "

Harry Triguboff

" I realized that we have to do everything we can to preserve the Jewish race. I'm very proud of it, and I think it's wonderful. "

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