QuoteQuest“I said to the bankers, "Listen, fellows, if I have a problem, then you have a problem. We have to find a way out or it's going to be a difficult time for both of us."”
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I said to the bankers, "Listen, fellows, if I have a problem, then you have a problem. We have to find a way out or it's going to be a difficult time for both of us." Citation: Fortune (August 13, 1990), as quoted in The World According to Trump (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 44 Listed on https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Trump (CC BY-SA)Read evidence
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