Harry Triguboff Quotes

Harry Triguboff

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 3, 1933

I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything.

Harry Triguboff

I tried all my life to make housing affordable. The more affordable the house, the more money I make.

Harry Triguboff

The newspapers were against me. They were telling me that the Australian dream was a home. But that dream became worse and worse as they had to live further away from the city. My dream became better as we could build higher and higher.

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

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

Harry Triguboff

We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.

Harry Triguboff

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

Harry Triguboff

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.

Harry Triguboff

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

Harry Triguboff

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.

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

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

Harry Triguboff

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

Harry Triguboff

If we allow more development, it will bring housing affordability.

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

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

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

Harry Triguboff

I never built houses, only apartments.

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