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.
Interpretation
Real estate is a stable investment that remains secure when handled wisely.
This quote emphasizes the idea that real estate is a durable and secure investment that, unlike other assets, cannot be easily lost or stolen. It suggests that by using common sense in the purchasing process, fully paying for the property, and managing it responsibly, investors can ensure the safety and profitability of their investment over time.
In practice
During a financial seminar, one might quote Roosevelt to stress the importance of investing wisely in real estate.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.
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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.
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