100 Real Estate Quotes That’ll Inspire You To Invest

100 Real Estate Quotes To Inspire You To Invest

In this article, you’ll find real estate quotes that not only will inspire you but make you wiser as regards your real estate investment endeavors.

The dream to be financially free is everyone’s wish.

However, mere wishes do not translate into reality; rather, thoughtful planning and actions do.

One guaranteed and trusted way to lead you on the path to financial freedom is real estate investments.

Times has proven that real estate investment remains one of the strongest wealth-building vehicles that can help you realize that big financial break.

It would please you to know that 90% of millionaires in the world made their wealth through real estate investments over the past two centuries.

This statistic shows that the surest path to financial break for an average investor is via real estate investment.

It is one of the most sustainable businesses that wouldn’t be rid of, notwithstanding the continuous technological advances, for land will always continue to exist and be sold.

However, becoming a real estate investor pose a challenge.

It requires a lot of skill to become that professional and reliable real estate investor that sees and strikes the right deal.

Key Takeaways

  • Investigate thoroughly before investing
  • Ignorance cost alot
  • Land value always appreciate
  • The real estate business is an assured and verified money-making business.

This real estate quotes will inspire you to invest wisely

1. “Don’t beat yourself up. Some transactions will naturally go smoothly, and others are a month of challenges. Learn what you can from each transaction, move on, and start the next one.”

— Kurt Uhlir

2. “To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients’ best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.”

— Anthony Hitt

3. “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

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

— Andrew Carnegie

5. “We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.” 

— Warren Buffett

6. “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

7. “Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.”

— William Penn Adair

8. “Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working…” 

— John Stuart Mill

9. “Real Estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values, and the least risk.” 

— Armstrong Williams

10. “Success in real estate comes down to two factors: taking care of and valuing the customer.”

— Michael Miedler, Century 21 CEO

11. “You don’t have to be too bright to get into real estate.”

― David Lichtenstein

12. “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

― Chinese Proverb

13. “Perhaps the secret to making a billion dollars in real estate is that there is no secret.”

— David Lichtenstein, real estate investor

14. “Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means… it’s not worth the sleepless nights.”

— Sarah Beeny

15. “To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.”

— Benjamin Graham

16. “Expansion always, in all ways.” 

— Ryan Serhant

17. “Real estate is the purest form of entrepreneurship.”

— Brian Buffini

18. “Wise spending is part of wise investing. And it’s never too late to start.”

— Rhonda Katz

Real estate quotes to consider before investing

19. “Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!” 

— Jack Bogle

20. “Don’t wait to buy real estate, buy real estate and wait.” 

— T. Harv. Eker

21. “Before you start trying to work out which direction the property market is headed, you should be aware that there are markets within markets.” 

— Paul Clitheroe

22. “Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.” 

— Anthony Trollope

23. “A forever real estate agent understands that the concept of home is predicated on the many changes life can bring, and it doesn’t start—or end—with the transaction.”

— Gino Blefari, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services CEO

24. “The most important asset you can own in your business is the attention of your customer. If you don’t own it, someone else does.”

— Adam Contos, RE/MAX CEO

25. “If you want to get rich in real estate, sell things to Realtors.”

— Anonymous

26. “Allow other people to speak first; the important factor is not who talks … it’s who listens.”

— Ilana Eberson

27. “In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.”

― Barbara Corcoran

28. “Without interest, you’re plain white toast. Boring. Uninteresting. Seen it. Heard it. Moving on.”

— Jessica Swesey, Partner and Chief Copywriter, 1000watt

29. “I will forever believe that buying a home is a great investment. Why? Because you can’t live in a stock certificate. You can’t live in a mutual fund.” 

— Oprah Winfrey, TV personality

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

— Barbara Corcoran, investor

31. “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

32. “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

33. “I would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”

— Shakespeare

34. “Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.” 

— Benjamin Graham

35. “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, real estate developer

36. “Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan, spiritualist

37. “Kissing is like real estate. The most important thing is location, location, location.”

— Anonymous

Real estate quotes about getting the right deal

38. “Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they’re interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.”

— Barbara Corcoran

39. “The best time to buy a house is always five years ago.”

— Ray Brown

40. “The problem with real estate is that it’s local. You have to understand the local market.”

 — Robert Kiyosaki, founder of the Rich Dad Company

41. “But land is land, and it’s safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.” 

— Eugene O’neill

42. “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

43. “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

44. “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

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

— Warren Buffet

46. “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

47. “Good intentions and a desire to help people alone will at best lead you to a mediocre career in real estate.”

— Sean Moudry

48. “Make a customer, not a sale.”

— Katherine Barchetti

49. “Before you start trying to work out which direction the property market is headed, you should be aware that there are markets within markets.”

— Paul Clitheroe

50. “Markets always change, and as soon as there’s downturn, cleanliness becomes a major value.”

— Donald Trump

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

— Warren Buffet

52. “Vet your realtor upfront – make sure they are qualified upfront before you sign.”

— Egypt Sherrod

53. “Realtors are the gatekeepers of community.” 

— Trent Williamson

54. “There’s always opportunity in real estate. It’s just a matter of finding that opportunity in the current market.”

— Samantha DeBianchi

Real estate quotes that will enhance your business wits

55. “If you don’t control your environment somebody else will.”

— Grant Cardone

56. “Real estate is a contact sport.”

— Tracey Hampson, Real Estate Agent, Realty ONE Group

57. “The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect…”

— Warren Buffett

58. “Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies…”

— Winston Churchill

59. “Real estate is the basis of all security and about the only indestructible security.” 

— Russell Sage

60. “People say they get into real estate for ‘freedom,’ but if you have a lot of freedom, you’re probably not selling any houses!”

— Dana Galli, HM Properties

61. “If you’re in your 20s, 30s, or 40s and you’re entrepreneurially minded like I am, I don’t think the best strategy for you is to buy a home.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

62. “In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you’re a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.”

— Jeff Greene

63. “You must never try to make all the money that’s in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won’t have many deals.”

— J. Paul Getty

64. “Every sale has five obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.”

— Zig Ziglar

65. “The bottom line: Investing in real estate is smart because property is tangible. People always have and always will need shelter.” 

— Kathy Fettke, investor

66. “Buy land, they aren’t making anymore of it.”

— Mark Twain

67. “But land is land, and it’s safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.” 

— Eugene O’neill

68. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.” 

— Peter Lynch

69. “More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined.”

— Andrew Carnegie, billionaire industrialist

70. “In order to build your wealth and improve your business smarts, you need to know about real estate.” 

— Donald Trump

71. “Never depend on a single income. Make investments to create a second source.”

— Warren Buffett

72. “Our favourite holding period is forever.”

— Warren Buffett

73. “I still think buying a home is the best investment any individual can make.”

— John Paulson

Real estate quotes to motivate you on the path to wealth

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

— Marshall Field

75. “Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.” 

— Andrew Carnegie

76. “The major fortunes in America have been made in land.”

— John D. Rockefeller

77. “The best investment on earth is earth.”

 — Louis Glickman

78. “Owning a home is a keystone of wealth — both financial affluence and emotional security.”

— Suze Orman

79. “Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

80. “He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land.”

— Hebrew Proverb

81. “Land will only double its value in ten years.”

— Sam Shepard

82. “Real estate is an imperishable asset, ever-increasing in value. It is the most solid security that human ingenuity has devised.”

— Russell Sage

83. “Real estate is the basis of wealth.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

84. “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

85. “Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.”

― Sir David Frost

86. “When you invest, you are buying a day that you don’t have to work.”

— Aya Laraya

87. “The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.” 

— Warren Buffett

88. “This is a real-estate-driven economy from top to bottom.”

— Christopher Thornberg

89. “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

90. “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

91. “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

92. “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

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

— Andrew Carnegie

94. “Real estate is at the core of almost every business, and it’s certainly at the core of most people’s wealth.” 

— Donald Trump

95. “You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.” 

— Gordon B. Hickey

96. “Property has its duties as well as its rights.”

— Thomas Drummond

97. “Investing puts money to work. The only reason to save money is to invest it.”

— Grant Cardone

98.  “Don’t work for money; make it work for you.”

— Robert Kiyosaki

99. “Earn as much as you can, save as much as you can, invest as much as you can, give as much as you can.”

— John Wesley

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

— Jane Bryant Quinn 

Final Thoughts

The journey or the struggle to becoming a successful real estate investor and achieving financial freedom can be exciting as well as daunting.

With consistency, firm determination, and hard work, you can reach that final chapter of the journey.

Hopefully, the above real estate quotes will not only help you reach that accomplishment but keep you inspired all through the journey.

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