Quotes About Real Estate

“Chase had looked at the apartment-online-talked to the real estate agent-online-obtained references-online.
Now, standing in the hallway, it was obvious he'd gotten fucked-online.”

— Adrienne Wilder

“Disorder in the house
The doors are coming off the hinges
The earth will open and swallow up the real estate
I just got my paycheck
I'm gonna paint the whole town grey
Whether it's a night in Paris or a Fresno matinee
It's the home of the brave and the land of the free
Where the less you know the better off you'll be”

— Warren Zevon

“I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the 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

“Harlem was the main chance for the east end of New York, for eastsiders, as that real estate boom that took place in the 1890s - and it was a preposterous one where people bought and sold, and everything appreciated with each sale - and eventually, of course, the house of cards would crumble.”

— David Levering Lewis

“Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.”

— Jean-Georges Vongerichten

“When you're hitting a fairway wood, you've got a lot of real estate to cover to get to your target. Your first instinct is probably to give it a little more power because you're worried about coming up short.”

— Ernie Els

“For the Trump brand name, when we build, we want only the best buildings in the world. We travel a lot to see real estate projects worldwide, and we always study what can be done better. There's no question about it: a Trump Tower has to have the very best quality, amenities and facilities. People want that ultra-luxurious lifestyle.”

— Eric Trump

“I do real estate.”

— Kevin Dillon

“I view real estate as the most intriguing opportunity that I've seen in my business lifetime.”

— Richard Rainwater

“Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.”

— Ross Perot, Jr.

“If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.”

— Lorraine Bracco

“I started out, coming out of college, I had my Realtor's license, and I did real estate full time for a number of years.”

— Bill Huizenga

“For example, if I make money, I put it in real estate. I always did very well. Location, location, location.”

— Ivana Trump

“You know a lot about spies, espionage, and strategic advantages for a billionaire playboy, real estate mogul, and owner of an exclusive sex club.”

— Lisa Shearin

“Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.”

— John Grisham

“Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping centers flourish and service the communities, and jobs come out.”

— Johnny Isakson

“For some companies and investors, it's all a bit of financial fun. Castle Partners, L.P., a pooled investment vehicle registered in Delaware, bought properties through its Oregon affiliate Castle Advisors using several companies with variations on the name COTD, an apparent play on the seafood menu phrase "Catch Of The Day." One real estate developer held property in a company called Boondoggle LLC. Another bought six houses with My Financial Workout.”

— Anonymous.

“I got into real estate very much by accident.”

— Jeff Greene

“Successful real estate investing begins with identifying value. How do investors identify value? That's easy. They look at real estate. They look at a lot of real estate. They look very carefully at a lot of real estate. I wish I could tell you there was a shortcut, but there's not, and I caution you against trying to create one. When you are starting to learn the value of real estate in an area, you will need to look at a lot of real estate. And as you carefully begin to get a sense of what people are asking and what people are willing to pay, you gain a sense of market value-what's worth what. This applies to both sales prices and rental rates. These are the two big variables in the value equation.”

— Gary Keller

“The band played up and down valleys still in those days unknown except to a few real-estate visionaries, little crossroads places where one day houses'd sprawl and the rates of human affliction in all categories zoom.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Quality for me is key, and this stands true in every facet of my business from real estate, hotels, and fashion.”

— Ivanka Trump

“[I]f you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking about the body of the beloved, not real estate.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?"
Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.”

— Robert Kiyosaki

“As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work.”

— Robert Reich

“In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.”

— Juan Williams

“I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.”

— John Catsimatidis

“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

“My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.”

— Donald Trump

“The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.”

— Steve Case

“I don't think it ever occurred to me that I wouldn't be an entrepreneur. My dad became a real estate developer, and that work is usually project-based. You attract investors for a project with a certain life cycle, and then you move on to the next thing. It's almost like being a serial entrepreneur, so I had that as an example.”

— Stewart Butterfield

“The more books there are on shelves, the more will be sold. Once you get to the level of The Secret and have 40-100 copies in many stores, managers have almost no choice but to put them in prime real estate like front-of-store, end caps, or front window.”

— Timothy Ferriss

“Over 17 years, I took on banks, landlords, real estate firms, local governments, anybody who treated anybody unfairly.”

— Tim Kaine

“Ever since the millennial crash, the United States has been buffeted by currency shocks, interest-rate gyrations, and financial device bubbles. Government fashions move "investment" from real estate consumption to climate distractions. It was technology alone that saved the world economy.”

— George Gilder

“As people seek to improve their living environment, there will be continuous demand for residential property. Investment in real estate market should have reasonable prospects in the long run.”

— Li Ka-shing

“Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.”

— Robert G. Allen

“The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.”

— G. William Domhoff

“On Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.”

— Marya Mannes

“What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We got here by lending money, and putting money to work in the U.S. real estate market, in a size that was probably larger than what we ought to have done on a diversification basis.”

— Vikram Pandit

“If any American really believes that Obamacare is going to control costs, I've got some real estate in Whitewater, Arkansas I'd like to sell them.”

— Jonathan Gruber

“The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay.”

— Mark Shields

“Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners; a farm that will supply the owner with oil, wine, fruit, and flowers for the house.”

— Mary McCarthy

“Almost all of the demand for oil that suddenly pushed prices up was speculative demand. People began to speculate not only in stocks and bonds and real estate, but also in commodities. The market went up for old tankers, which were used simply to store oil in. A lot of the oil was simply being stored for trading, not used.”

— Michael Hudson

“If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English and write their names and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and pay taxes thereon, and would completely disarm the adversary. This you can do with perfect safety. And as a consequence, the radicals, who are wild upon negro franchise, will be completely foiled in their attempts to keep the Southern States from renewing their relations to the Union.”

— Andrew Johnson

“Everyone said, 'You can't lose money in real estate, because they're not making any more of it.' Hmmmm. Where did everyone go wrong?”

— Jane Bryant Quinn

“People are constantly telling me, whether they are friends who feel sorry for me, because I can't find a place to live, or real estate agents, "You can't afford an apartment the size you need with this many books. Why don't you just put some of your books in storage?" And I always say the same thing: "What if I told you I had four children? Would you say, 'You just can't afford to house four children. Why don't you just put two of them in storage?'" That's how I feel.”

— Fran Lebowitz

“The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it. Andrew Carnegie of the energetic rich, aggressive real estate operators, corporate acquirers, oil drillers, etc. have their fortunes disappear.”

— Warren Buffett

“Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.”

— Will Rogers

“My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income ... passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.”

— Robert Kiyosaki