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Success Quote by Ivanka Trump

"I'm always running up and down buildings or around 800-acre properties for work - you can't do that in heels or flip-flops!"

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Ivanka Trump’s line is a tidy piece of lifestyle self-branding dressed up as workplace realism. The image is intentionally kinetic: sprinting up and down buildings, traversing “800-acre properties,” always in motion. It’s not just meant to sound busy; it’s meant to sound important. The scale does a lot of work here. “Buildings” and “800 acres” aren’t neutral settings, they’re symbols of access and empire. The point isn’t that she’s practical; it’s that her version of practical still lives in a world of architectural grandeur and private sprawl.

The shoe detail is the hook because it invites identification without giving up status. Heels and flip-flops are two easy stereotypes of femininity: the glamorous and the careless. Rejecting both lets her claim a third lane: competent, disciplined, “appropriate.” It’s a subtle rebuttal to the critique that she’s ornamental - the accusation that she’s more brand than operator. In one sentence, she performs a kind of executive athleticism, a body-in-motion argument that she belongs in the arena, not just on the cover.

Context matters: this sort of quote circulates best in the glossy ecosystem of aspirational entrepreneurship, where relatability is currency and authenticity is staged. You’re invited to see her as a working woman solving mundane problems, even as the mundane is framed by extraordinary privilege. The subtext is classic Trumpworld: I’m like you in the small details, and unlike you in every detail that actually counts.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Trump, Ivanka. (2026, January 15). I'm always running up and down buildings or around 800-acre properties for work - you can't do that in heels or flip-flops! FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-always-running-up-and-down-buildings-or-around-173322/

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Trump, Ivanka. "I'm always running up and down buildings or around 800-acre properties for work - you can't do that in heels or flip-flops!" FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-always-running-up-and-down-buildings-or-around-173322/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm always running up and down buildings or around 800-acre properties for work - you can't do that in heels or flip-flops!" FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-always-running-up-and-down-buildings-or-around-173322/. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.

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Ivanka Trump (born October 30, 1981) is a Businesswoman from USA.

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