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“Actually, when Donald ran the first time, I think he sent Donald his first check because he says, look, I don't know if this thing's going anywhere, but he's, I love him, so I gotta just support him, and he did the same this time”

“I've really been spending a lot of time helping people get up to speed. Who are going into the incoming administration on all of the challenges that we face so they can avoid those challenges on any advice they call for to figure out how on the files that I wo…”

“I'm a big believer in that work shouldn't be distributed. What you should be doing is when you find either a big problem or an opportunity, then you go all in on that thing. That means you need the right organizational structure to enable you to not be bogged …”

“So we started a company recently with Elad Gill, who's one of the top investors in Silicon Valley in the AI space.”

“And I'm pretty confident that under President Trump and Pam Bondi, they'll actually implement a lot of the skills training Programs in prison that will help people leave prison, get jobs, and then not become return customers.”

“I had all the police groups, the Sheriff's Association, the FOP, everyone supported the reforms, and I think that they'll make a big difference over time.”

“Running a newspaper is a crappy business, so you really have to learn how to take the nickel off the dollar, so just as a pure operator, I learned a lot about how to run a business.”

“If I was gonna do something today from scratch, I think the most powerful form of media is the podcast. I think that's clearly in its early stages of what it's gonna be.”

“X has become so powerful that I was looking last night for updates on Syria, and I was getting all of my news up to speed on X from what I was looking to find. So what was interesting was X has almost become the raw material of the news.”

“At that point in time, I remember seeing polls that, Illegal immigration was not like a top five issue when he started the campaign by, you know, the middle to end of the campaign, people were really seeing the craziness that was happening at the southern bord…”

“Again, I wasn't accepting money for any of these jobs, so it wasn't doing it for financial gain.”

“Before October seventh, I mean, over half the population lived under the poverty line.”

“ISIS had a caliphate the size of Ohio. They were ruling over eight million people.”

“I think GDP will take a big hit there in Q four, but obviously, you know, in Israel, they do have a history of coming back right away.”

“And when I would negotiate with the Israelis, like they would treat every issue like it was like a 10, you know what I mean? In the sense that like they just operate, like there's no margin for error.”

“One thing with Trump, he won, you know, with his operation, we were able to overperform our polling.”

“In a year and a half, we renegotiated NAFTA, and it got over 80 votes in the Senate.”

“I think in the election cycle, I think both parties are going to Probably try to avoid talking about it”

“When we were in kind of our worst moments in COVID, the second country that sent us a plane load of supplies and ventilators when New York looked like it was, you know, on the verge of going under was Russia.”

“In the U.S., we have about one point 1300 gigawatts of energy. but what they showed me is that there's about 2000 gigawatts of energy that was waiting for permits from the FERC”

“And so she's been making investments. She's been helping us a lot on, on some of our early stage investments that we make in AI and other areas, and she has a very good track record of doing those investments”

“Manhattan's vacancy rate in the Plaza District was about four percent, which meant the rents were going up double digits every year.”

“We brought in Carlisle Group and the Chira family to buy 50% of the retail for five hundred and twenty-five million dollars at the time, and then we kept a 50%.”

“Then we were able to turn that value into north of a billion of value over the next three, four years, and the Chira's did a great job along with Carlisle, and we were able to get our 50% of the profits, which also returned a lot of our cash from the original …”

“Leased the whole building, and we ended up selling it for about a hundred sixty million about a year later.”

“Most of the deals we've done have been with other firms where I try to say with affinity that we're competitive to no one, but collaborative with everyone and complimentary. So we work with all the other top tier firms and we co-invest where they bring differe…”

“We've been working on this now for about 18 months, doing a participating preferred equity investment in one of the leading infrastructure companies in Mexico.”

“Management has figured out how to use AI and cameras and computer vision In order to figure out how to reduce the food waste by 35%, which has actually led to better margins for the company as well.”

“And Doug McMillan from Walmart at the time said, you know what? If our country's asking us to do this, we're going to do it. We'll take the liability.”

“They said, we have 1.2 million swabs in the country. I said, okay, what does that mean? They said, that means we could do 37 testing sites.”

“And it kind of made me realize that our biggest constraints were going to be our lowest cost items. We're going to become our bottlenecks.”

“I mean, they manage over a hundred fifty billion dollars. They're doing SMAs now with BlackRock and Aries and Apollo and many others, and they have a very strong position in the market, phenomenal management team, and several business lines that I think are po…”

“We made one investment in the UAE where we invest in a company called Dubizzle, which is the leading online classifieds business there. It's a pretty well-known business model throughout the world, a phenomenal business model of the online classifieds, but we …”

“Sheikh Mohammed, who's now the prime minister, I spoke to him every day, about three times a day for a hundred days straight.”

“I remember we were investing in Warby Parker and Harry's and a whole bunch of other ones. He invested in Spotify, and I'd sit with him on the investment committee for the first couple of funds, and it was just extraordinary.”

“He would have us reading financial statements by the time we were 10 years old, and he would be taking us to properties with him on Sunday.”

“He started a second chance program in his company where a lot of people come out of prison, get jobs at Kushner.”

“I think there's a difference between a manager and an investor, and I've been trying very much to be more of an investor than a manager. So the time to think, research, the way they gather information, process information, curiosity, and then I think the humil…”

“So we have a very flat team. Like when we do RICs, everyone's at RICs. I want everyone to be learning from our problems. I want everyone to be learning from our opportunities. I want everyone to be learning from our arguments. And I want everyone to see when w…”

“Our team is over 25 people now. And major corporations, which we are now working with four of and getting them all to work together and then see what you're able to create out of that.”

“I'm able to create the balance that I want to create, which is not like a balanced balance. It's like extreme with them and extreme on my work, but I'm able to make it work in a way that works well.”

“We had a lot of issues in the company because banks couldn't do business with somebody who had a criminal record, so we were dealing with a lot of problems.”

“Globally, we raised just over 3.1 billion, doing a lot of investments, trying to bring Gulf money into Israel, into the US, trying to figure out how through investments you could bring countries closer together, people closer together,”

“And I will say in New York that the rental rates for residential, I think are at historic highs”

“I sat with MBZ, who's now the president of UAE. At the time, he was the crown prince, but he was the de facto ruler of the country.”

“Initially, we were doing mostly preferred equity deals.”

“One of the things that's been very interesting is that I think the few times that I've made mistakes have been when I've made decisions quicker than I was ready to make decisions. And so now I find that I'm tremendously disciplined on if I don't feel comfortab…”

“The more we identify what we're looking for, and more importantly, what we're not looking for, that enables us to throw things out of the boat much quicker.”