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

Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

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

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.

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

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.

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

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

Buy land, they aren’t making anymore of it.

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

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

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.

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.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

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.

Don’t wait to buy real estate, buy real estate and wait.

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.

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.

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.

Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.

Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.

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.

Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

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.

Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.

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.

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.