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01 / belief
“What I would say is that for Zelenskyy and Putin, any conversation with both of them is about understanding their perspective.”
02 / belief
“I met so many people who I never would’ve met otherwise, on the conservative side, on the independent side, on so many different issues, I think that people benefit, if you have such a strong point of view, I would follow the John Stewart Mill marketplace of ideas and find people who disagree with you, and don’t call them names, don’t say they’re a bad person.”
03 / belief
“Mohammed bin Salman, he was a businessman before he got into Crown Prince. So he thinks really with a business mindset about how he runs the country, and he’s brought I think a different mindset and energy to the Middle East.”
04 / belief
“One of my greatest takeaways when I grew up, I’d read the newspapers about all these powerful, famous people. And then as I got older and had the chance to meet them and do business with them and then ultimately interact with them in government, is I realized that they’re just like you and me.”
05 / belief
“I think as a leader, you can’t change yesterday, but you have the ability to change tomorrow.”
06 / belief
“The business people have a much different mindset than government people, and there was a lot of resistance. And I think part of why there was so much resistance was because, I think about it from my personal sense, was that if I was successful with no traditional qualifications to do diplomacy, it meant that all the people with traditional qualifications and diplomacy didn’t necessarily need those qualifications in order to be successful.”
07 / belief
“I would say slightly. I was doing real estate like three months ago and now I’m flying over Iraq and the chairman says, “That’s Saddam Hussein’s palace,” and I looked down, there’s a big bomb right through the middle.”
08 / belief
“I learned very quickly that the difference between a political deal and a business deal is that in a business deal, you have a problem set, you come to a conclusion, and then if you buy or sell something, you either have more cash or you have a company.”
09 / belief
“Then Lebanon, which is at 200%. And so you’re in a situation where a lot of this stuff didn’t make sense, but if you draw lines, create institutions where Palestinian people can now feel like they have property rights and have ownership over their place, and let the money flow past the leadership ranks to the people, let them have jobs, let them have opportunity, and then let all Muslims from throughout the world have access to the mosque and Israel, making sure that they can control the security, which I think the Jordanians and a lot of others want Israel to have strong security control there to prevent the radicalists and the extremists from coming, you could have peace there very easily.”
10 / belief
“The economy was rocking. His body of work, I think was pretty strong as president.”
11 / belief
“Again, I think I’d chosen very good friends in life and my friends were with me.”
12 / belief
“I think there’s also tremendous power that we have as people to help people get to a better place.”
13 / belief
“In terms of the criticisms, I think that I’ve been criticized in every step of everything I’ve always done in my life.”
14 / belief
“Again, some of them I wish they would play for different means, but the fact that they’re willing to put their name on the ballot, make the sacrifice, and go put on the fads and get hit and hit others, I think that you need those people.”
15 / belief
“I think what their aim is, what they’re willing to do, and all of the strong security that Israel’s put in place over the last years, which in some instances was criticized, I think is now being validated, that there was a real threat that they were looking to deter.”
16 / belief
“Number two, I would say never stop learning and always try to say yes more than you should, go out of your comfort zone.”
17 / belief
“During the transition, President Trump took a call from the head of Taiwan and that sent the Chinese into a real tailspin, and he didn’t do it, I think to be provocative to them as much as just as a businessman, he felt, you answer your call: if somebody wants to speak to you, you speak to him, you want to have conversations, hear their point of view.”
18 / belief
“I think Russia, we thought it was in their strategic advantage to play US and China against each other because of the way that everything was done before.”
19 / belief
“I’d meet with a lot of different world leaders, and some of them, I would say, they’re very, very special, transformational figures.”