REAL ESTATE QUOTES
quotations about real estate
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
Autobiography
I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how they call every small house "charming" and every run-down house a "great fixer-upper". Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, "This one's a piece of crap."
STEPHAN PASTIS
Pearls Sells Out: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury
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
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Land monopoly is not the only monopoly which exists, 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
Liberalism and the Social Problem
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
Think Like a Billionaire
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
attributed, Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes, and Quads
In show biz you are where you live. Real estate is the key to who has been signed, dumped, divorced, defrocked, deflowered, disbarred, arrested, disgraced, married and multiplied.
PAMELA LANSDEN
People Magazine, July 13, 1987
A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.
ROMAN PAYNE
The Wanderess
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.
MARGARET MITCHELL
Gone With the Wind
Since people are always making more people but nobody is making any more land, the future for real estate is a good one.
DAVID J. GRZESIEK
Financial Independence Through Buying and Investing in Single Family Homes
Real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to the human soul.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR.
Mother Night
It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.
DONALD TRUMP
interview, January 9, 2002
Everybody knew there was a housing bubble. You'd f***ing go to a neighbor, "Gee, that house costed $60,000 last year, and now it costs $600,000?! What did they do?!" "Well, they put a gazebo in the back."
LEWIS BLACK
Stark Raving Black
He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land.
HEBREW PROVERB
Don't wait to buy real estate; buy real estate and wait!
ROBERT G. ALLEN
Nothing Down
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. A man will commit almost any wrong -- he will heap an immense pile of wickedness, as hard as granite, and which will weigh as heavily upon his soul, to eternal ages -- only to build a great, gloomy, dark-chambered mansion, for himself to die in.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The House of the Seven Gables
The smallest patch of green to arrest the monotony of asphalt and concrete is as important to the value of real estate as streets, sewers and convenient shopping.
JAMES FELT
New York Times, June 28, 1960
Keep calm and let me list your home.
ANONYMOUS
Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch.
WENDELL BERRY
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.
ANDERSON COOPER
attributed, Real Estate Law