Real Estate Investing Quotes

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Real, Ninety, Estates

  8 Copy quote

• Our favorite holding period is forever.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny Inspirational, Business, War

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.63, Carolina Academic Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.

  Robert G. Allen

  Real, Waiting, Estates

  Robert G. Allen (2004). “Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  21 Copy quote

• 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

  Real, Risk, Return

  3 Copy quote

• 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

  Land, Feelings, Literature

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Last Chronicle of Barset”, p.517, Anthony Trollope

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Real, Mean, Cash Flow

  11 Copy quote

• 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

  Real, Independent, Community

  4 Copy quote

• The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Real, Men

  4 Copy quote

• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Business, War

  "The Three Essential Warren Buffett Quotes To Live By" by James Berman, www.forbes.com. April 20, 2014.

  89 Copy quote

  Show source

• The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Farming, States, Farmers

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.18, Hackett Publishing

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  44 Copy quote

• 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

  192 Copy quote

• 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

  Land, Mind, Pieces

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.411, BIG BYTE BOOKS

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

  John D. Rockefeller

  America, Land, Estates

  9 Copy quote

• It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Investing Money

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.150, John Wiley & Sons

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Motivation, Business

  38 Copy quote

• Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

  Warren Buffett

  Giving, Investing, Buffets

  "Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist". Book by Roger Lowenstein, 1995.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Mother, Land, Form

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1970). “The people's rights”, Jonathan Cape

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  Warren Buffett

  Investment Success, Enemy, Looks

  21 Copy quote

• Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Success, Business, Intelligent

  53 Copy quote

• Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Sea, Giving

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 1, l. [70]

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  9 Copy quote

• It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

  Donald Trump

  Love, Success, Beautiful

  Ken Lawrence, Donald Trump (2005). “The World According to Trump: An Unauthorized Portrait in His Own Words”, p.113, Andrews McMeel Publishing

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

  John Stuart Mill

  Sleep, Rich, Investing In Real Estate

  6 Copy quote