Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.
Interpretation
Owning real estate is a key factor in achieving significant wealth.
This quote by Andrew Carnegie emphasizes the importance of real estate ownership in wealth accumulation. It suggests that a substantial majority of millionaires attribute their financial success to investments in property, highlighting real estate as a powerful avenue for building wealth over time.
In practice
In a financial seminar discussing wealth-building strategies.
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.
Youβve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.
It's the best thing that can happen to a player. Being able to play at the World Cup is already the best, but then to raise the trophy to the sky is a dream.
Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
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