Jared Kushner

And as long as you assume that, you know, people were

acting mostly in good faith, you were able to navigate areas where you didn't have complete overlap of priorities and objectives.

I would say that I always would think about how can I be a partner to others?

Like I would want somebody to be a partner to me.

And a lot of it comes from just my different experiences in business.

I've had great partners.

I've had terrible partners.

My father, you know, again, a lot of my childhood was I was exposed to business.

My father

On Sundays, he would take us to job sites and to the office with him instead of to football games like my friends' fathers would do.

And so we were exposed to business.

And what he would say about his father, who was an immigrant to America, came over with nothing, had no formal education, but he would always say, a good deal with a bad partner will always be a bad deal, and a bad deal with a good partner...

you'll figure it out.

And so going through some of the challenges that I had in my life early on, whether it was the issue with my father that I'm sure we'll talk about, or even going through some tougher financial times during the great financial crisis, I really learned a lot about partnership.

And I always thought, how can I act in a way where I could be the type of partner or friend to others that I wish others would be to me?

Yeah.

So leaders are generally chosen by their country.

And so my view was, if I had an objective, I didn't get to choose who was the leader of other countries.

My job was to deal with that leader, understand their strengths, understand their weaknesses, understand their power dynamics as well.

You know, one of my greatest takeaways when I grew up, I'd read the newspapers about all these powerful, famous people.