Harry Triguboff Quotes
100 Harry Triguboff Quotes (Meriton Quotes)
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I’m glad that I am a property developer and not a historian because I make things and a historian only talks about things.
Harry Triguboff
I tried to throw a chair at a bank manager but I couldn’t lift the chair. It was a heavy chair!
Harry Triguboff
I don't have heart attacks; I give heart attacks!
Harry Triguboff
These days I don’t get angry much.
Harry Triguboff
I only like to be involved where there are problems.
Harry Triguboff
If you have one thing that you like – then stick to it.
Harry Triguboff
The bigger you become, the harder you work.
Harry Triguboff
Why the hell would you want to spend your time at the ATO?
Harry Triguboff
Everybody should have an indoor pool to unwind in.
Harry Triguboff
There’s always more buyers than apartments.
Harry Triguboff
[On hiring employees] If you know how to select, you don’t fire often.
Harry Triguboff
The greatest achievement is that I have survived in the business…
Harry Triguboff
We do not speculate…
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We have to make the parks smaller.
Harry Triguboff
[In 2004 on him renting out 1,200 of his own apartments and commercial suites] It’s something where nobody ever really interferes.
Harry Triguboff
Being clever is very good. But you must like what you do, and it’s impossible to like everything. So if you have one thing that you like – then stick to it. And until you find that thing – keep looking. Cause the main thing is that you have to like what you do and then the rest will come by itself.
Harry Triguboff
[On people saying that he has been known to throw shoes at staff who don’t live up to expectations] That is bullsh*t. It sounds good but it is not right.
Harry Triguboff
When I look back at 50 years I’m sure that the greatest achievement is that I have survived in the business and I have grown all the time. Because it is obvious that it is a very difficult business and I managed to do it without going public or without having any partners.
Harry Triguboff
It’s been very gratifying to see that I was able to start from very low beginnings.
Harry Triguboff
I was building blocks of 8 units and now I’m building blocks 80 floors high.
Harry Triguboff
I always believed only in apartments and said that people would prefer apartments. I never built one cottage in my life.
Harry Triguboff
I always look for innovations.
Harry Triguboff
Efficiency is what I am always looking for.
Harry Triguboff
When we do everything from beginning to end ourselves we know the business very well.
Harry Triguboff
The philosophy is that we try to build as soon as we can after acquiring a property. We do not speculate whether it comes at the right time or the wrong time. Once we buy the land then it’s the right time as far as we are concerned.
Harry Triguboff
We tried hotels before and we didn’t like them at all, but maybe the timing was wrong. We did hotels approximately 15 years ago. We had a number of hotels but we turned them into apartments and sold them off.
Harry Triguboff
Interest rates must be kept low. Inflation in the Western World was beaten when China started to export cheap goods and services. We are fighting inflation which is no longer here.
Harry Triguboff
Trying to grow too fast and carry huge debt is OK when the banks are not nervous; but, once they start pulling in the purse strings it takes very little for the whole deck of cards to tumble down.
Harry Triguboff
I dabbled in the stock market but it is very unpredictable.
Harry Triguboff
Investing in property is simpler, safer and far more straightforward and logical.
Harry Triguboff
[In 2010] There are two things that can greatly improve our economy. They are immigration and housing.
Harry Triguboff
[On his first property development] It was eight two-bedroom apartments. It cost 17,000 pounds and then sold for 26,000 pounds. It was very profitable. And I was very happy with this effort.
Harry Triguboff
The hardest thing about being a developer in Australia is to cope with the fact we have no people and we are not making an effort to make Australia a bigger place.
Harry Triguboff
I did my best in all I have built. One must understand a lot of time is wasted on democracy and a lot of beauty is sacrificed
Harry Triguboff
Forget about building the best and forget about building the worst. The masses are somewhere in the middle. If you build the best, you go broke; if you build the worst, you don't make money; and if you are in the middle, you make a fortune. Any goddamn fool can build things better but go broke.
Harry Triguboff
[On Sydney’s national parks to the North and South] Nowhere in the world do you have parks in the middle of the city. That’s what we have here, and they are huge parks. So if we want the city to be efficient, then we have to make the parks smaller.
Harry Triguboff
[In 2010 on Australia having a big population] I’d like to see 100 million, because I believe we’ll have many things to do here besides drilling holes and selling coal. I mean, our agriculture has to be huge, our desalination will be fantastic, our rivers must flow the right way. I mean, it will all have to be developed.
Harry Triguboff
[On being asked about retirement just before his 75th birthday] Retire? It will make me mad.
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I was a salesman in real estate. I think I was a very bad salesman but I was a very good student. I learnt from my purchasers what they wanted.
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[On every block of units that he builds] Every year every block has to be a little bit better than the block before. Otherwise what happens the people who bought before from me will undercut me, and that is what pushes me to improve all the time.
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