quotations about real estate
Real Estate is a commodity bought and sold everyday. Just like a stock, you would buy from your broker. The difference is, if the value of my Real Estate goes down drastically, I still have a tangible security. If my stock plummets, all I have is a piece of paper.
RICO VECC
attributed, How to Become a Millionaire in Your Jeans and a T-shirt Using Real Estate
If you don't own a home, buy one. If you own a home, buy another one. If you own two homes, buy a third. And, lend your relatives the money to buy a home.
JOHN PAULSON
attributed, Diary of Hedgehog: Biggs' Final Words on the Markets
Landlords get rich in their sleep.
ANONYMOUS
Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head.
JOHN STEINBECK
Of Mice and Men
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
attributed, How Real Estate Developers Think: Design, Profits, and Community
Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it.
JOHN STEINBECK
The Grapes of Wrath
Real estate is an imperishable asset, ever increasing in value. It is the most solid security that human ingenuity has devised.
RUSSELL SAGE
attributed, Florida East Coast Homeseeker, Volume 14
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
LORD ACTON
The History of Freedom in Christianity
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
attributed, La Revue du notariat, Volume 65
At the end of the day, real estate is a numbers game. Do the numbers work for you? Fall in love with the deal, not the property.
DIANE KENNEDY & DOLF DE ROOS
The Insider's Guide to Tax-Free Real Estate Investments
But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.
EUGENE O'NEILL
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.
MARSHALL FIELD
attributed, The Advanced Guide to Real Estate Investing
The land was ours before we were the land's.
ROBERT FROST
"The Gift Outright"
In the real estate business, you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.
JOHNNY ISAKSON
"Inspiring Real Estate Quotes", lamudi
Our home is our castle, our sanctuary, our haven of safety. It is where we can just be, create, and enjoy the pleasures of life.
JEWEL STAR
7 Magic Keys to Buying a Home
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
Gone With the Wind
Real estate is a team sport.
JOHN CARNEY
Real Estate Is a Team Sport
The only thing permanent about real estate is a measured patch of earth and the column of air above it. The rest is disposable.
JUSTIN DAVIDSON
"The Glass Stampede", The Best American Magazine Writing 2009
Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years. In less than that. Land is going up every day.
SAM SHEPARD
Curse of the Starving Class
Lots of people collect dirt. Most people call them real estate moguls.
JAROD KINTZ
This Book Is Not For Sale