Famous Real Estate Quotes

With these quotes, we hope to inspire first time buyers to look towards the future and the possibility of owning your own home and the financial long-term stability that owning a home can provide for You and Your family. We wish you the best!


Here are some famous and classic quotes from leaders and personalities giving insights into the business and the value of owning a property.


“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


“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


“The major fortunes in America have been made in land.”

John D. Rockefeller


“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”

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


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

Suze Orman


“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


“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, American Financier and Politician


“Before you start trying to work out which direction the property market is headed, you should be aware that there are markets within markets.”

Paul Clitheroe


“He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land.”

Hebrew Proverb


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

Marshall Field


“Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing.”

John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and economist