Estates Quotes

• No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Death, Real

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Domain names and websites are Internet real estate.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Real, Names, Internet

  Interview with Mike Sullivan, www.businessinterviews.com. March 7, 2011.

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• In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

  James Belushi

  Real, House, Intellectual

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• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Funny, Real, Happens

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• 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

  Wise, Real, Men

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• The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.

  Blair Underwood

  Real, Years, Broadway

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• Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.

  Christie Hefner

  Real, Careers, Decision

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too.

  Ivanka Trump

  Jobs, Real, Weekend

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• I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door.

  Donna Douglas

  Real, Thinking, Doors

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• 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

  Change, Success, Business

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• 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

  Real, Land, Cities

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• I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Want, Rich

  "Reps. Paul Ryan, Chris Van Hollen Talk Policy, Politics; Justice Stephen Breyer on New Book". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

  James Otis

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

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• Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.

  Michael Oxley

  Real, Technology, Impact

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• We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

  Suze Orman

  Real, Kids, College

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• Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.

  Herman Gorter

  Russia, Government, Land

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• People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.

  Michael Nesmith

  Real, People, Understanding

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. 2003.

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• Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.

  Marshall Field

  Real, Way, Buying

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• Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Real, Ninety, Millionaire

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• My friends are my estate.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Friendship, Family

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Real, Common Sense, World

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• The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Real, Yield, Class

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• I always felt very secure and very safe with real estate. Real estate always appreciates.

  Ivana Trump

  Real, Appreciate, Investing

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• A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Men, Tragedy, Stories

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• And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Friendship, Country, Ties

  Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.206, Broadview Press

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