““Real estate is at the core of almost every business, and it’s certainly at the core of most people’s wealth. In order to build your wealth and improve your business smarts, you need to know about real estate.”
Donald Trump
“It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.”
Anthony Trollope
“Owning a home is a keystone of wealth.. both financial affluence and emotional security.”
Suze Orman
“I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I’ll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent. Forget about it.”
Ivana Trump
“A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.”
William Baldwin
“Most economists agree…a home will become little more than a roof and a tax deduction, certainly not the lucrative investment it was…”
Anonymous
“We’re starting to go back to the time when you bought a home not for its potential money-making abilities, but rather as a nesting spot.”
Anonymous
“Financial planners agree that houses will continue to be a poor investment.”
Anonymous
“A home is where the bad investment is.”
Anonymous
“Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.”
Will Rogers
“Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.”
Teddy Roosevelt
“The money you get from selling land, never buys the same land back.”
Anonymous
“Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, but the only way to become wealthy.”
Marshall Field
“Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.”
William J. Bryan
“In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.”
Sarah Beeny
“I think a lot of people were under the impression that property development was a way of becoming a millionaire in six months, while doing nothing, and I don’t think that’s the case. And I’m not sure it ever has been, really.”
Sarah Beeny
“If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that’s a good reason for going into development.”
Sarah Beeny
” Before you start trying to work out which direction the property market is headed, you should be aware that there are markets within markets.”
Paul Clitheroe
“Selling your own house is not easy as you are emotionally attached to it. If you do your own selling, keep emotions well in check.”
Paul Clitheroe
“By educating the consumer, Realtors can charge lower commission rates because they don’t have to work as many hours with each consumer. The agent doesn’t have to show as many properties.”
Dave Liniger
“Markets always change, and as soon as there’s downturn, cleanliness becomes a major value.”
Donald Trump
“Buy on the fringe and wait. Buy land near a growing city! Buy real estate when other people want to sell. Hold what you buy!”
John Jacob Astor
“Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.”
Andrew Carnegie
” I don’t think the market can keep going up. In the U.S., we see real estate not going up.. houses are selling at lower prices. You can’t have anything going up 10 percent to 20 percent to 30 percent indefinitely.”
Eli Broad
” In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.”
Akira Mori
” Owning a home is a keystone of wealth.. both financial affluence and emotional security.”
Suze Orman
” I think selling techniques are basically the same in every country, except there are different cultures that have different methods of negotiating. But real estate is the same, whether it happens to be in Australia or if it happens to be in New York.”
George Ross
“It’s tangible, it’s solid, it’s beautiful. It’s artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.”
Donald Trump
” Every day, you’ll have opportunities to take chances and to work outside your safety net. Sure, it’s a lot easier to stay in your comfort zone.. in my case, business suits and real estate.. but sometimes you have to take risks. When the risks pay off, that’s when you reap the biggest rewards.”
Donald Trump
” Well, real estate is always good, as far as I’m concerned.”
Donald Trump
” I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I’ll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent. Forget about it.”
Ivana Trump
” I always felt very secure and very safe with real estate. Real estate always appreciates.”
Ivana Trump
” I’ve never lived in a building without my name on it.”
Ivanka Trump
“The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.”
Noel Whittaker
” I have developer’s disease. I love to sit at a drafting table and draw plans for hotels, wrestling with problems of traffic and the flow of people. That’s what turns me on.”
Steve Wynn
“I’ve always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I’m open to anything. We’ve spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities in real estate outside the United States.”
Sam Zell
“The question is not do you take money out of stocks and put it into real estate, or the reverse. There’s so much money out there looking for a home. I don’t think it’s either/or.”
Sam Zell
“Interest rates are going to go up because employment is going to go up. If employment goes up, then our apartments get filled. And if employment goes up, our office buildings get filled. The reality is that increased economic activity combined with increased interest rates is basically bullish for real estate.”
Sam Zell
“The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.”
Frank Zappa quotes
“No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave”
Mark Twain quotes
“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”
George Jean Nathan quotes
“In a real estate man’s eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell”
Will Rogers
“What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.”
Donal Henahan
“Buy land, they aren’t making anymore of it.”
Will Rogers
“Don’t wait to buy real estate, buy real estate and wait.”
T. Harv Eker
“If you aren’t working for your goals, you are working for someone else’s goals.”
Anonymous
“The bedroom was so small you couldn’t even change your mind in it,”
Bob Boog
“Goals just point us in a direction. Visualization can create the inner experience for our manifestation. Something will become a reality when our minds are made up to do it, and take the appropriate action to make it happen.”
Anonymous
“Every man is the architect of his own future.”
Goethe
“Luck is a word we use to explain the good fortune of those we don’t like.”
Anonymous
“The only failure lies in failure to start.”
Harold Blake Walker
“Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
Helen Keller
