Harry Triguboff Quotes

China, Businessman
March 3, 1933

Harry Oskar Triguboff AO (born 3 March 1933 in Dalian, Liaoning), is an Australian billionaire real estate developer, and one of Australia's richest people. He is the founder and managing director of Meriton and is known as "high-rise Harry". In May 2016, he was declared the wealthiest person in Australia by net worth in the annual Financial Review Rich 200 list, yet held the mantle for only one year.

Also known as Founder

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

Harry Triguboff
- People
- Newspapers
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
- Jewish race

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

Harry Triguboff
- Optimistic
- Developer
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.

Harry Triguboff
- People
- Minds
- Employ
I deal in volume. To sell volume, it must be affordable. So that's my whole life, is to make it affordable.

Harry Triguboff
- Life
- Deal
- Volume
Land values are going up a lot in Sydney, but it's feasible to build because prices are going up, too.

Harry Triguboff
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.

Harry Triguboff
- Business
- Money flows
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.

Harry Triguboff
- People
- Fire
- Careful

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.

Harry Triguboff
The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.

Harry Triguboff
- War
- China
- Russians
I'm a businessman, that's all.

Harry Triguboff
- Businessman