23 Inspirational Real Estate Quotes to Motivate You!
Aside from our faith, Uriah and I both firmly believe that real estate holds the key to changing people’s lives. For some, this means investing monetary funds for a financial return, and for others, it looks like liquidating an asset that’s no longer serving them. In either case, real estate can create an opportunity to build long-term wealth, provide housing, and even the emotional value of homeownership.
There have been many smart people throughout history who agree real estate (and investing in it) can provide many benefits. For this reason, we thought we’d create a list of our favorite inspirational real estate quotes, along with some graphics for you to save and share.
Our Favorite Inspirational Real Estate Quotes:
“Buy land, they aren’t making it anymore.”
-Mark Twain
“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
“‘It’s impossible,’ said pride. ‘It’s risky,’ said experience, ‘it’s pointless,’ said reason. ‘Give it a try,’ whispered the heart.”
-unknown
“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
“The best investment on Earth is earth.”
-Louis Rickman
“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
“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
“I view real estate as the most intriguing opportunity that I’ve seen in my business lifetime.”
-Richard Rainwater
“In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.”
-Johnny Isakson
“Real estate investing is unique in that it’s almost as much a career or a way of life as it is a form of investing. Indeed, the fact that real estate involves so much sweat equity makes it unique among other investments.”
-Fabrizio Moreira
“Say yes to the situations that stretch you and scare you and ask you to be a better you than you can think.”
-Annie Downs
“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
“Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate”
– Andrew Carnegie
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
– Warren Buffett
“You are what you do, not what you say you will do.”
– unknown
“Land is land, and it’s safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.”
– Eugene O’neill
“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
“Owning a home is a keystone of wealth … both financial affluence and emotional security.”
– Suze Orman
“Know what you own, and know why you own it.”
– Peter Lynch
“Landlords grow rich in their sleep.”
– John Stuart Mill
“We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.”
– Warren Buffett
“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
“Don’t wait to buy real estate, buy real estate and wait.”
-Will Rodgers
We hope these inspirational quotes motivate you in your real estate journey!
