Vicky Ward > Quotes

“As good as [most] real estate guys are as transactionalists, that's how poor they are as conceptualists,” says Sam Zell. “That's why they keep getting caught in oversupplies. Because what they do requires such a micro focus, their ability to then go macro is limited.”
― Vicky Ward, The Liar's Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons

“Word went around the Lehman offices that Gallatin, who negotiated all of Lehman’s compensation, had been described to the American Express board by Robinson as a “man who enters revolving doors after me and somehow reaches the other side first.”
― Vicky Ward, The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers

“She’s got the biggest set of balls in the room.” In 2006, it would be Sater who took Ivanka on a scouting trip to Moscow, and it would be Sater who, while they were on a private tour of the Kremlin, pleaded with a member of Vladimir Putin’s security detail to allow her to sit, briefly, in the Russian president’s chair.”
― Vicky Ward, Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump