Quotes on Real Estate Investing

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.

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.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.