Thoughts on real estate
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. Real estate is the best investment on Earth. However, when the music stops playing, which happens occasionally, don’t be the one left without a chair.
—Steven Ivy
Well, real estate is always good, as far as I’m concerned.
—Donald Trump
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
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
—Warren Buffett
The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is planet Earth.—Bjarke Ingels
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
Know what you own, and know why you own it.—Peter Lynch
The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.
—Ray Brown
Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.—Mark Twain
In real estate, you make 10 percent of your money because you’re a genius and 90 percent because you catch a great wave.
—Jeff Greene
Don’t wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.—Will Rogers
Image: Will, Nathaniel, Armstrong: Shutterstock; Bjarke: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images For Time; Peter: Brian Snyder / Reuters
(This story appears in the 30 November, -0001 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
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