My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can’t sell. – 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
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
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
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
Chabad is very important because without Jewish education, Diaspora Jewry would disappear. – Harry Triguboff
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. – Harry Triguboff
I looked around, and I saw cottages everywhere. I thought it was time they lived in apartments. – Harry Triguboff
Land values are going up a lot in Sydney, but it’s feasible to build because prices are going up, too. – Harry Triguboff
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. – Harry Triguboff
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. – Harry Triguboff
The market is good when the local people are in it and believe in it and support it. That’s what I want. – 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. – Harry Triguboff
The newspapers were always against me in the beginning because they thought I was depriving people of what they wanted. – 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
The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years. – Harry Triguboff
I tried all my life to make housing affordable. The more affordable the house, the more money I make. – 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
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
