Quotes and thoughts on real estate

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

“It’s tangible, it’s solid, it’s beautiful. It’s artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.”
Donald Trump

DISCLAIMER: I do not agree with or like all of the quotations listed below about real estate and property. I publish these here for various reasons- they made me think, they made me laugh, or they are just simply worth considering and pondering about.
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“Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.”
Andrew Carnegie

“It’s tangible, it’s solid, it’s beautiful. It’s artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.”
Donald Trump

“A man complained that [on] his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor’s.  I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Landlords grow rich in their sleep.”
John Stuart Mill

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

“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 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 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

“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

“Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.”
Ed McMahon

“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
“No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own.  However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.“
Charles Dudley Warner
“If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable.  In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.“
Oscar Wilde

“I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, "Get the hell off my property."
Joan Rivers

“I've never lived in a building without my name on it.”
Ivanka Trump

“I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent. Forget about it.”
Ivana Trump

"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

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

“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor