Richard Baker

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"Pop-Up Bagel just sold 250 master franchises in one day. They're going to open up Pop-Up Bagels all over America. So if you're friends with someone who has the Pop-Up Bagel franchise for, you know, Nevada, then you can work with them in order to figure out where they want to be and find a location that they're going to be happy to rent from you."

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"We did one this past weekend, sponsored by Joe De Sena from Spartan Races up in Vermont."

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"I sold it to Michael Rubin at Fanatics."

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"If I have a great relationship with Starbucks and I know that they're growing and expanding into Western Massachusetts and I can find a site in Western Massachusetts that I know would work well for Starbucks, my goal would be to negotiate to buy the property. And while I'm negotiating to buy the property, before I have to close, I sign a deal with Starbucks."

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"These families are selling these properties and Blackstone doesn't want to buy them. These are great properties and they can buy them efficiently."

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"I spent 17 years building Walmart stores across the east coast of the United States and did all of it with no money."

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"My very clever son recently put some of my stock into Vornado stock. By the way, it's up 30% since we bought it. So, it's just fine."

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"Bonus depreciation and being a real estate professional is a super exciting moment and gives a lot more juice to the real estate professionals doing deals right now."

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"I was on Google Maps and I looked — I said, 'Don't ask me questions. Go drive around that property.'"

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"I've lost $200 million in a company called Gilt. We bought Gilt and it didn't go the way we wanted it to go. The culture of the folks that worked at Gilt didn't work well with the folks that worked at Saks."