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You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.
Oct 1, 2025
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising
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.
The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.
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.
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.
I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent.
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.
Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.
The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.
Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.
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.
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 man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.
A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.
Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too.
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.
Every day, you'll have opportunities to take chances and to work outside your safety net. Sure, it's a lot easier to stay in your comfort zone.. in my case, business suits and real estate.. but sometimes you have to take risks. When the risks pay off, that's when you reap the biggest rewards.
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Our favorite holding period is forever.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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.
We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.
It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.
The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.
Know what you own, and know why you own it.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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