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important to me, and here’s the reason: Past, pres-ent, and future tenants
and owners have one very important quality in common. They all want the
best for their money, which allows me to give you a simple formula for
success: Deliver the goods.

A lady in a building across from one of mine actually called in to
complain to us. Her complaint? The constant cleaning and polishing of my
building was making her crazy. Every time she looked outside and across
the street, someone was cleaning something, which she thought was
excessive and unnecessary, and that I must have some sort of a problem
that should be taken care of. Ever hear of New York stories? The funny
part is that we don’t have to make them up.

2:45P.M. I decide to take a tour of the office. First I visit Bernie
Diamond, my general counsel, who is conferring with Sonja Talesnik.
Then I see Andy Weiss and Don Jr. about something they’re working on. I
pass Scott Etess, who is on the phone, and see Charlie, Jill, and Russell in
the conference room. I stop by to visit Micha Koeppel, VP of construction,
and notice that Nathan Nelson and Anna DeVincentis are both busy on

their phones. I ask my accounting team, Jeff McConney and Eric Sacher,
to meet with me and Allen Weisselberg at 4:30. I see Ramon dealing with
an enormous pile of mail, which we get plenty of around here. Everyone
looks busy to me, and there’s a nice hum to all the activity. On my way
back, I stop to chat with George Ross and Jason Greenblatt. I notice some
doorknobs need polishing and that the copy room needs to be cleaned up a
bit, but on the whole, the office is looking good. We’ve been in our Trump

Tower offices for twenty years, and they still look brand-new.
3:00P.M. I agree to go to Ferragamo’s new store opening and the Luca
Luca fashion show at Bryant Park, and we’re trying to arrange my
weekend schedule, which at this point is a whirlwind, even with a
helicopter. It’s a good thing I’m an active type, or this might tire me out.

Reggie Jackson stops by for a quick visit. He is always welcome here,
and my staff loves it when he visits. We chat for a few minutes, and I
remember all the incredible moments he has given us as a Yankee. Truly a
great.
I return calls to Jay Neveloff, David Scharf, and my brother Robert,
and make a call to Wollman Rink to see how we did with our summer
attraction, Victorian Gardens. We used the ice rink space as an upscale