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
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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.
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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.
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I don't think I have to combat Airbnb. It is like comparing Tiffany to a shop that sells things for one dollar.
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I deal in volume. To sell volume, it must be affordable. So that's my whole life, is to make it affordable.
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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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The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.
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If the banks become unreliable lenders, apartment prices will drop dramatically.
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Land values are going up a lot in Sydney, but it's feasible to build because prices are going up, too.
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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.
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The newspapers were always against me in the beginning because they thought I was depriving people of what they wanted.
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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.