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" Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy. "

Donald Trump, Jr.

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" When I spent time with my father, it wasn't playing ball in the back yard. I came to his office and listened to him do business or sat in on meetings. I walked job sites. On Saturday, we'd see my grandfather in Queens for a couple hours, and then he'd say, 'Let's go collect rent!' "

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" I have no middle wardrobe. I go from the suit to jeans. "

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" To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once you have it, it doesn't go away, and everywhere else in the world feels like it is in slow motion. "

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" It's been a process of evolving within a family company to get the autonomy I now have from a boss like my father. If you're sitting there waiting for a pat on the back, you're going to be waiting a long time. "

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" If there's information out there, you want it. "

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" When we do deals, it's not, 'Ah, it's a million bucks, who cares?' The penny means something. "

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" I avoided the spotlight when I was a kid. I always knew, 'Hey, it wasn't me. I didn't do anything.' If there was a camera around, I hid from it. "

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" 'The Apprentice' has been excellent for my dad. Before, there was always that kind of corporate, Napoleonic evilness to Donald Trump. Now people see him interacting with normal - barely normal - individuals, and it's like, 'Wait a second. He's a regular guy!' "

Donald Trump, Jr.

" So many people, you know, they're just worried about, you can't say something bad about Obama, not because you actually have a strong stance against his platform, but because that makes you a racist. "

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" What's great about my father is that, because we've been involved in the business from such a young age, he's given us - and we've earned - autonomy, and he's given us the rope to go out and grow the brand. "

Donald Trump, Jr.

" I was following my dad around from a young age. I don't know if it's genetic or just because I was surrounded by it, but I was always fascinated with building and construction and development. "

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" Why can you get a driver's license that is recognized state-to-state but a concealed weapons permit is not treated the same? There is a process to do that in a Trump administration because it makes sense. "

Donald Trump, Jr.

" It wasn't a typical 'Let's go play catch in the backyard' sort of father-son relationship. We always went to job sites with him. "

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" I think I probably got a lot of my father's natural security or ego or whatever. I can be my own person and not have to live under his shadow. I definitely look up to him in many ways - I'd like to be more like him when it comes to business - but I think I'm such a different person, it's hard to even compare us. "

Donald Trump, Jr.

" If I want to hand one of my old shotguns that I've had for 50 years to my grandkid one day, I have to go through a federal transfer? It's crazy. "

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" I'm kind of a closet redneck. "

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" I may be one of the last New Yorkers who actually drives in the city daily. "

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" I'm pretty certain that I'm the only son of a billionaire who can drive a D10 Caterpillar better than I can drive a golf cart. "

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" I think politics is a dirty game. We've seen the sides that they take; we've seen the commentary they have had on my father. "

Donald Trump, Jr.

" Rob Goldstone is a talent manager for Emin Agalarov, who's an Azerbaijani Russian singer who performed at Miss Universe and later performed at the WGC championship golf course tournament that we held at Doral. "

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" What makes us unique is that we actually build things. Unlike most hotel companies who just manage and have no experience building, designing, and developing a hotel, we started off on the opposite track. We started off building. We're construction guys first and foremost. "

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" It's tough to be 12. You're not quite a man, but you think you are. "

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" I don't want my kids growing up to be city kids. "

Donald Trump, Jr.

" In our family, if you weren't competitive, you didn't eat. You had to fight for what you wanted. "

Donald Trump, Jr.

" We'd be in his office playing with trucks as a six-year-old while he's negotiating deals with presidents of major companies. "

Donald Trump, Jr.

" We were spoiled in many ways, but we were always taught to understand the value of the dollar. If there was something we wanted, we had to earn it. Even in college, we were very fiscally responsible. I had 300 bucks a month; anything I wanted beyond that, I had to work for. "

Donald Trump, Jr.

" I think we are just so far away from the political elite. Whether you are on one side or the other, you're still part of that group. "

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" I've broken probably every major bone in my body. I currently have, in my body, fifteen pins and a plate. I've broken my femur, both wrists, both ankles - my left ankle twice. My tibia. Tore my rotator cuff. "

Donald Trump, Jr.

" I've been able to see some very impressive people that are in politics, and I've been able to see a lot more people that are much less impressive that I don't know if I'd want to spend my life working with. When I see sort of how the sausage is made, it's not very pretty. "

Donald Trump, Jr.

" My father's not the type of person that teaches you by saying, 'Come here, son. I'm going to tell you about real estate.' You learn by watching it. If you don't pick it up, it's your problem. "

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