Interest rates are going to go up because employment is going to go up. If employment goes up, then our apartments get filled. And if employment goes…

- Sam Zell

The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line.

- Sam Zell

The question is not do you take money out of stocks and put it into real estate, or the reverse. There's so much money out there looking for a home. …

- Sam Zell

I've always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I'm open to anything. We've spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunit…

- Sam Zell

In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends up being worth doing. That might be a …

- Sam Zell

When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made extraordinary margins. I…

- Sam Zell

Everyone likes pussy. It's un-American not to like pussy.

- Sam Zell

Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance.

- Sam Zell

If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate.

- Sam Zell