Harry Triguboff
Harry Triguboff
Harry Oscar Triguboff AO, an Australian billionaire residential property developer, is one of Australia's richest people. He is the founder and managing director of Meriton and is colloquially known as "high-rise Harry". In May 2016 Triguboff was declared the wealthiest person in Australia by net worth in the annual BRW Rich 200 list...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth3 March 1933
CountryAustralia
If we allow more development, it will bring housing affordability.
banks prices
If the banks become unreliable lenders, apartment prices will drop dramatically.
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I tried all my life to make housing affordable. The more affordable the house, the more money I make.
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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.
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The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.
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Local councils are hostile to large developers and think that, by doing this, they are standing up for the community. But they're wrong.
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I've changed Sydney. It's my city, my people. I'm theirs. We belong to each other.
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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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I looked around, and I saw cottages everywhere. I thought it was time they lived in apartments.
anybody bricks laid life people
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.
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.
deal life
I deal in volume. To sell volume, it must be affordable. So that's my whole life, is to make it affordable.
education
Chabad is very important because without Jewish education, Diaspora Jewry would disappear.
A developer who is not optimistic shouldn't be a developer.