Harry Triguboff Quotes

I'm a businessman, that's all.

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.

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

Land values are going up a lot in Sydney, but it's feasible to build because prices are going up, too.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.

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.

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

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

In Sydney, we always have a deficiency of housing. So that's one good thing, which will cause real estate to keep going up. Not fast, but it'll go up.

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.

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.

I would consider selling the whole company; I wouldn't like to sell just part of it, but on the other hand, I have a grandson intent on following my footsteps and another grandson in another couple of years.

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

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

I've changed Sydney. It's my city, my people. I'm theirs. We belong to each other.