The markets may change, but good investing advice is timeless. Here are some the most insightful quotes about real estate investing.

1. Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal 2nd base and keep your foot on 1st.– Fred Wilcox

2. Tough times don’t last. Tough people do. – Gregory Peck

3. Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. – Jim Rohn

4. The major fortunes in America have been made in land. – John D. Rockefeller

5. Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. – Andrew Carnegie

6. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

7. He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land. – Hebrew Proverb

8. 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

9. 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

10. The best investment on Earth is earth. – Louis Glickman

11. Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1 – Warren Buffett

12. But land is land, and it’s safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers. – Eugene O’neill

13. 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

14. 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

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

16. 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

17. 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

18. Property has its duties as well as its rights. – Thomas Drummond

19. If you do not like real estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it. – Robert Kiyosaki

20. Buy land, they aren’t making anymore of it. – Mark Twain

21. Owning a home is a keystone of wealth… both financial affluence and emotional security. – Suze Orman

22. The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive. – Jay Baer

23. I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land 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 Jones

24. 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

25. Landlords grow rich in their sleep. – John Stuart Mill

26. Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. – Warren Buffett

27. We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest. – Warren Buffett

28. Know what you own, and know why you own it. – Peter Lynch

29. Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. – Peter Lynch

30. 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

31. You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place. – Albert Einstein

32. A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. – Mark Twain

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

34. 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

35. Don’t wait to buy real estate, buy real estate and wait. – T. Harv Eker

36. 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

37. Real estate practice is not about selling or buying a home. It’s about representing your client’s greatest asset to your clients greatest benefit. – Alex Delgado

38. 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

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

40. Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy. – Marshall Field
41. 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

42. 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

43. Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results. – Warren Buffet

44. I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land 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

45. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. – Warren Buffett

46. 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

47. 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

48. Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth. – Paul Clitheroe

49. 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

50. 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

“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. And, lend your relatives the money to buy a home.”
John Paulson, investor and multi-billionaire

“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

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. – Mark Twain

We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest. – Warren Buffett

“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. And, lend your relatives the money to buy a home.”
John Paulson, investor and multi-billionaire

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

“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. And, lend your relatives the money to buy a home.”
John Paulson, investor and multi-billionaire

You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place. – Albert Einstein

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

"Most people think buying is investing, but they're wrong, it doesn't make you an investor any more than buying groceries makes you a chef"- Gary Keller

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