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have never been afraid of debt, because debt is what gives you leverage, and I also knew our projects were excellent ones. So, one day when the head of Morgan Guaranty stuck out his hand at a gathering of bankers and said, "Bill, you look like a million dollars," I could crack back, "I'd better—I owe you three million.
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William Zeckendorf (Zeckendorf: The autobiography of the man who played a real-life game of Monopoly and won the largest real estate empire in history.)