Themarkets may change, but good investing advice is timeless. Hereare 50 of the most insightful quotes about real estate investing.
50 Inspirational Quotes for Real Estate Investors
1. Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal 2nd base and keep your foot on 1st.– Fred Wilcox
2. Tough times don’t last. Tough people do. – Gregory Peck
3. Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. – Jim Rohn
4. The major fortunes in America have been made in land. – John D. Rockefeller
5. Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. – Andrew Carnegie
6. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
7. He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land. – Hebrew Proverb
8. The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect… You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd. – Warren Buffett
9. Everyone wants a piece of land. It’s the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or washing machine. Land will only double its value in ten years. – Sam Shepard
10. The best investment on Earth is earth. – Louis Glickman
11. Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1 – Warren Buffett
12. But land is land, and it’s safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers. – Eugene O’neill
13. 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
14. Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly. – Winston Churchill
15. A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters. – Barbara Corcoran
16. Real estate is an imperishable asset, ever increasing in value. It is the most solid security that human ingenuity has devised. It is the basis of all security and about the only indestructible security. – Russell Sage
17. 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
18. Property has its duties as well as its rights. – Thomas Drummond
19. If you do not like real estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it. – Robert Kiyosaki
20. Buy land, they aren’t making anymore of it. – Mark Twain
21. Owning a home is a keystone of wealth… both financial affluence and emotional security. – Suze Orman
22. The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive. – Jay Baer
23. I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth. – Jesse Jones
24. Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk. – Armstrong Williams
25. Landlords grow rich in their sleep. – John Stuart Mill
26. Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. – Warren Buffett
27. We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest. – Warren Buffett
28. Know what you own, and know why you own it. – Peter Lynch
29. Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. – Peter Lynch
30. Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
31. You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place. – Albert Einstein
32. A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. – Mark Twain
33. In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield – Warren Buffett
34. 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. – Theodore Roosevelt
35. Don’t wait to buy real estate, buy real estate and wait. – T. Harv Eker
36. There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land. – Harriet Martineau
37. Real estate practice is not about selling or buying a home. It’s about representing your client’s greatest asset to your clients greatest benefit. – Alex Delgado
38. The house you looked at today and wanted to think about until tomorrow may be the same house someone looked at yesterday and will buy today. – Koki Adasi
39. Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there. – William Penn Adair
40. Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy. – Marshall Field
41. 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. – Theodore Roosevelt
42. Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth. – Robert Kiyosaki
43. Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results. – Warren Buffet
44. I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth. – Jesse H. Jones
45. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. – Warren Buffett
46. The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it’s the only thing that lasts. – Margaret Mitchell
47. The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect… You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd. – Warren Buffett
48. Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth. – Paul Clitheroe
49. 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
50. Buy real estate in areas where the path exists…and buy more real estate where there is no path, but you can create your own. – David Waronker
