Real Estate Quotes to Motivate You to Invest

Are you interested in investing in real estate? The real estate quotes shown below will push you to incorporate investing into your vocabulary.

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Nareit estimates that the commercial real estate industry was valued between $14 and $17 trillion in 2018. Whether you are interested in becoming a realtor or looking forward to owning your own home, the real estate industry is exciting from all perspectives.

Below we have compiled motivational real estate advice from professionals throughout the real estate industry including realtors, investors, and CEOs Take a look at what these prominent figures have to say about real estate below.

Real estate quotes about buying and selling real estate

1. “Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they’re interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.” – Barbara Corcoran

2. “Don’t wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.” – Will Rogers

3. “Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.” – William Penn Adair

4. “Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing.” – John Stuart Mill

5. “Before you start trying to work out which direction the property market is headed, you should be aware that there are markets within markets.” – Paul Clitheroe

6. “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” – Mark Twain

7. “Buy on the fringe and wait. Buy land near a growing city! Buy real estate when other people want to sell. Hold what you buy!” – John Jacob Astor

8. “If you’re not going to put money in real estate, where else?” – Tamir Sapir

9. “Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.” – Marshall Field

10. “To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients’ best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.” – Anthony Hitt

Insightful real estate quotes

11. “Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.” – Armstrong Williams

12. “In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.” – Sarah Beeny

13. “Vet your realtor upfront – make sure they are qualified upfront before you sign” – Egypt Sherrod

14. “Realtors are the gatekeepers of community.” – Trent Williamson

15. “Want to disrupt real estate? Ask yourself what people don’t like about the real estate experience and what they’re doing outside of the tools you provide them.” – Kurt Uhlir

16. “A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.” – Barbara Corcoran

17. “A real estate agent has two property listings. Now add 11 more. What does the agent have now? Happiness. That agent has happiness.” – Tim Dulany

18. “Everyone wants a piece of land. It’s the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or washing machine. Land will only double its value in ten years.” – Sam Shepard

19. “But land is land, and it’s safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.” – Eugene O’Neill

20. “Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.” – Warren Buffett

21. “Buy real estate in areas where the path exists…and buy more real estate where there is no path, but you can create your own.” – David Waronker

Motivational real estate quotes

22. “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.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

23. “Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young [person] or wage earner of today invests [their] money in real estate.” – Andrew Carnegie

24. “Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan

25. “It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.” – Anthony Trollope

26. “The best investment on Earth is earth.” – Louis Glickman

27. “Real estate is an imperishable asset, ever-increasing in value. It is the most solid security that human ingenuity has devised. It is the basis of all security and about the only indestructible security.” – Russell Sage

28. “There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.” – Harriet Martineau

29. “Expansion always, in all ways.” – Ryan Serhant

30. “Don’t beat yourself up. Some transactions will naturally go smoothly, and others are a month of challenges. Learn what you can from each transaction, move on, and start the next one.” – Kurt Uhlir

31. “Real estate is the purest form of entrepreneurship.” – Brian Buffini

32. “There’s always opportunity in real estate. It’s just a matter of finding that opportunity in the current market.” – Samantha DeBianchi

33. “Success is actually a short race – a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.” – Gary Keller

34. “The major fortunes in America have been made in land.” – John D. Rockefeller

35. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” – Warren Buffett

36. “Property has its duties as well as its rights.” – Thomas Drummond

Real estate quotes about owning a home

37. “Owning a home is a keystone of wealth — both financial affluence and emotional security.” – Suze Orman

38. “If you don’t own a home, buy one. If you own a home, buy another one. If you own two homes, buy a third.” – John Paulson

39. “The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.” – Ray Brown

40. “I still think buying a home is the best investment any individual can make.” – John Paulson

41. “I will forever believe that buying a home is a great investment. Why? Because you can’t live in a stock certificate. You can’t live in a mutual fund.” – Oprah Winfrey

42. “The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” – Maya Angelou

Real estate quotes about making investments

43. “Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.” – Theodore Roosevelt

44. “Never depend on a single income, make an investment to create a second source.” – Warren Buffett

45. “Invest in yourself, you can afford it, trust me.” – Rashon Carraway

46. “Earn as much as you can, save as much as you can, invest as much as you can, give as much as you can.” – John Wesley

47. “Wise spending is part of wise investing. And it’s never too late to start.” – Rhonda Katz

48. “When you invest, you are buying a day that you don’t have to work.” – Aya Laraya

49. “Investing puts money to work. The only reason to save money is to invest it.” – Grant Cardone

50. “Don’t work for money; make it work for you.” – Robert Kiyosaki

More real estate quotes and sayings

51. “I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

52. “Property mistakes are like a bad haircut…they grow out in the end.” – George Choy

53. “There is no one who is deceived and deceived in property matters !! Those who know the details are the ones who do not know the details.” – SM Paranjothi Pandian

54. “When it comes to property, become a tree without feelings / emotions.” – SM Paranjothi Pandian

55. “Real estate investment, your life goals, and current life journey should be in the same straight line. Many are losing investors because these three are not in line.” – SM Paranjothi Pandian

56. “Our primary objective in every mortgage transaction should be to borrow in a way that reduces debt, improves financial stability, and helps us get debt-free in as short a time as possible!” – Dale Vermillion

57. “You will become at least as rich as the amount of good debt you take in your life.” – H. J. Chammas

58. “The authenticity in your story, the authority in your delivery and the personalization of your presentation will make you that much more real and able to reach that many more people in your real estate business.” – Loren Weisman

59. “Every individual deserves to be educated and fully informed on the details that go into every touchpoint of a real estate transaction.” – Doug Fish

60. “This is not a race to get to a closing. This is an experience that begins with understanding the needs of every client and developing the individualized steps for each situation.” – Doug Fish

Real estate quotes to motivate you to invest

61. “What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

62. “No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owner as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near some growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere.” — Grover Cleveland

63. “I have always liked real estate; farmland, pastureland, timberland and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth.” — Jesse H. Jones

64. “The ownership of a home, the feelings of independence that comes with the possession of a bit of the earth are among the most powerful incentives to high civic interest and usefulness.” — Calvin Coolidge

65. “I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.” — Hetty Green

66. “Real Estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth.” — Robert Kiyosaki

67. “In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.” — Akira Mori 

68. “In so far as Government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels, so that every poor man may have a home.” — Abraham Lincoln

69. “At what lengths are you willing to go to on a daily basis to build a thriving real estate career?” — Jon Cheplak

70. “Most top producers in real estate, like in every business, are focused on learning and biased towards action. If you want to keep growing, you have to make learning and action your highest priorities.” — Kurt Uhlir

Real estate quotes that will convince you to invest

71. “Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.” — William Jennings Bryan

72. “Current real estate prices aren’t high because they have been driven up by irresponsible speculation. As was often the case in the past. Prices have risen because a constantly increasing population with money to invest has been created – and continues to be created.” — J.Paul Getty

73. “Personal property brings you into society with men. But land is part of God’s estate in the globe; and when a parcel of land is deeded to you, and you walk over it, and call it your own, it seems as if you had come into partnership with the original proprietor of the earth.” — Henry Ward Beecher

74. “Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.” — Winston Churchill

75. “The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect… You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.” — Warren Buffett

76. “The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it’s the only thing that lasts”. — Margaret Mitchell

77. “The house you looked at today and wanted to think about until tomorrow may be the same house someone looked at yesterday and will buy today.” — Koki Adasi

78. “Success in real estate comes down to two factors: taking care of and valuing the customer.”― Michael Miedler

79. “One saying that needs to have its proverbial status revoked is the well-known real estate adage, ‘Buy the worst house in the best neighborhood.’” ― Spencer Rascoff

80. “In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you’re a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.” ― Jeff Greene

What have you heard about real estate from friends or family?

Is investing in real estate one of your long term goals? Now is the time to take that first step. As discussed above, investing can correlate to an increase in wealth. Making those strides towards investing now can change your financial future dramatically.

Don’t be afraid to take small steps. For example, set a monthly savings goal and stick to it. Just skipping out on your daily $5 specialty coffee drink can add up to about $1,800 in a year.

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