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“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.”
“I don't think I have to combat Airbnb. It is like comparing Tiffany to a shop that sells things for one dollar.”
“If the banks become unreliable lenders, apartment prices will drop dramatically.”
“We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.”
“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.”
“The market is good when the local people are in it and believe in it and support it. That's what I want.”
“Chabad is very important because without Jewish education, Diaspora Jewry would disappear.”
“When the unions were fighting me 45 years ago, they could never beat me.”
“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.”
“I never built houses, only apartments.”
“I deal in volume. To sell volume, it must be affordable. So that's my whole life, is to make it affordable.”
“A developer who is not optimistic shouldn't be a developer.”
“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.”
“I'm a businessman, that's all.”
“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.”
“The newspapers were always against me in the beginning because they thought I was depriving people of what they wanted.”
“Land values are going up a lot in Sydney, but it's feasible to build because prices are going up, too.”