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In October 2005, I was in New York City, speaking on the business of real estate and real estate investing. One of the other keynote speakers was Donald Trump. After my talk, a young man came up to me and said, "Nice talk, but you can't do what you talk about here in New York City."

Doing my best to be polite, I replied, "Well, Donald Trump is doing it."

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