The 200 Best Real Estate Investment Quotes for Buyers, Sellers, Agents

We all can benefit from a useful quote. Whether you’re building a house, selling a property, or planning to invest, these real estate investment quotes hope to inspire and keep you going.

(The curation of quotes is from a variety of sources, including other websites, Google, and Pinterest. Although I’ve vetted what to include, no further checking was done to verify the accuracy of credits made.)

Funny Real Estate Quotes

1. Top 10 things to do when selling your home. #1 Call me. (I’ll handle the other 9.) – Real estate broker/agent
2. Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. – Karl Marx
3. Selling real estate is easy. It’s like juggling cats… while riding a unicycle… on a high wire… over a shark-infested moat.
4. If you don’t like where you are, move. You are not a tree.
5. The best investment on earth is earth. – Louis Glickman
6. Buy land, they aren’t making any more of it. – Mark Twain
7. A real estate agent has two property listings. Now add 11 more. What does the agent have now? Happiness. That agent has happiness. – Tim Dulany
8. If at first, you don’t succeed, take the tax loss. – Kirk Kirkpatrick
9. If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. – Henry Ford
10. Kissing is like real estate. The most important thing is location, location, location.

Kissing is like real estate. The most important thing is location, location, location.

Unknown

11. I will forever believe that buying a home is a great investment. Why? Because you can’t live in a stock certificate. You can’t live in a mutual fund. – Oprah Winfrey
12. YOLO = You Only List Once… when you list with me!
13. You don’t have to be too bright to get into real estate. – David Lichtenstein
14. To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper. – Yakov Smirnoff
15. I am basically a full-time psychologist who shows houses every now and then. – Real estate broker/agent
16. If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late. – James Goldsmith

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17. I don’t want yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth. Even if it costs them their jobs. – Samuel Goldwyn

I don’t want yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth. Even if it costs them their jobs.

Samuel Goldwyn

18. If I were a professional wrestler, I’d want a name that strikes fear in most people. Something like, ‘The Underwriter’
19. Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. – Peter Lynch
20. In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. – Warren Buffett
21. Buildings don’t move, but neighborhoods change all the time.
22. In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you’re a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave. – Jeff Greene
23. Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. – Coco Chanel
24. Investing should be like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement…go to Las Vegas. – Paul Samuelson
25. Whether you’re an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you’re doing good work. You’re passionate about it. – Susan Isaacs
26. No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers. – Wolfgang Riebe
27. Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. – Margaret Thatcher
28. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Motivational Quotes for Real Estate

29. Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill 
30. Landlords grow rich in their sleep.
31. Persist – Don’t take no for an answer. If you’re happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you’ll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years. – David Rubenstein
32. The biggest risk is not taking any risk…in a world that’s constantly changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. – Mark Zuckerberg
33. If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. – Geena Davis
34. Real estate is my life. It is my day job if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends as well. – Ivanka Trump
35. The difference that I learned between people who succeed at a high level and people that don’t – is that people who succeed at a high level: learn from their failures, get up and go on. – Gary Keller
36. Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.
37. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain

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38. Impossible is just an opinion. – Paulo Coelho
39. You always pass failure on the way to success. – Mickey Rooney
40. Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you. – Mark Cuban

Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.

Mark Cuban

41. If you aim for nothing, you’ll hit it every time.
42. Tough times don’t last. Tough people do. – Gregory Peck
43. Perhaps the secret to making a billion dollars in real estate is that there is no secret. – David Lichtenstein
44. You will be amazed at how you can predict the future with your confidence. – Ryan Serhant
45. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
46. Tough times don’t last. Tough people do. – Gregory Peck

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47. Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal 2nd base and keep your foot on 1st. – Fred Wilcox
48. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
49. You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place. – Albert Einstein
50. Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. – Jim Rohn

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

51. No is the killer of dreams. No is the killer of great ideas. It’s the end of a conversation. – Robert Reffkin
52. Don’t be the guy that shows up at the potluck with just a fork. – Dave Liniger
53. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
54. Do not let any obstacles stop you. Where there are obstacles, there are also great opportunities. – Dottie Herman
55. In business, it’s always best to double down on your strengths.

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56. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. – Abraham Lincoln
57. Ever noticed how some people always find the perfect deal while the rest of us are left searching? There is a reason. It’s never about the deal. Wealth building is about the investor or business person. Period. – Robert Kiyosaki
58. Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful. – Hazrat Inayat Khan
59. If you’re not learning, you’re falling behind. Somebody else is getting better as you’re becoming less valuable. I see so many irrelevant salespeople I want to cry. They stopped learning. – Jill Konrath
60. All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

61. I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. – Herbert Bayard Swope
62. If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. – W.C. Fields
63. Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. – W. P. Kinsella
64. If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is. – Catherine Pulsifier
65. Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
66. Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. – Salvador Dali

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67. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. – Theodore Roosevelt
68. Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth. – Paul Clitheroe
69. It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. – Lou Holtz
70. Games are won by players who focus on the playing field—not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard. – Warren Buffett
71. It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. – Babe Ruth

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

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72. If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
73. Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. – Ray Kroc
74. Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all deadly sins. – Edith Wharton
75. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vince Lombardi
76. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin
77. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs
78. I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
79. There is little success where there is little laughter. – Andrew Carnegie
80. Life is C between B and D. The life we lead is the CHOICES we make between BIRTH and DEATH – Jean-Paul Sartre

Life is C between B and D. The life we lead is the CHOICES we make between BIRTH and DEATH

Jean-Paul Sartre

81. Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far. – Gary Vaynerchuk
82. Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later.
83. I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be. – Michelle Obama
84. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Kurt Cobain
85. Do or don’t, there is no try. – Yoda
86. A goal properly set is halfway reached. – Zig Ziglar
87. It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. – Edmund Hillary

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88. Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen. – Conan O’Brien
89. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein
90. Either run the day or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn
91. Whatever you are, be a good one. – Abraham Lincoln
92. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair
93. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
94. Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. – Thomas Jefferson
95. Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. – Michael Jordan

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Michael Jordan

96. If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears. – Simon Sinek
97. Dreams don’t work unless you do. – John C. Maxwell
98. When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.
99. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax. – Abe Lincoln
100. Success is actually a short race — a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over. – Gary Keller
101. Success is not a destination.
102. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. – Tony Robbins

Real Estate Investment Quotes

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.

Andrew Carnegie

103. Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. – Andrew Carnegie
104. Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.
105. Our favorite holding period is forever.
106. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. – Warren Buffett
107. The real estate market doesn’t care about your feelings.
108. I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful. – Warren Buffet
109. It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket. – Elon Musk
110. The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. – Robert Kiyosaki
111. Do one thing every day that scares you. – Eleanor Roosevelt
112. 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

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113. 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
114. Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means… it’s not worth the sleepless nights. – Sarah Beeny
115. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb
116. When you invest, you’re buying a day that you don’t have to work. – Aya Laraya
117. Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. – Jim Rohn

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

Jim Rohn

118. 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
119. 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
120. How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? – Robert G Allen
121. Owning a home is a keystone of wealth — both financial affluence and emotional security. – Suze Orman
122. Never invest in a business you can’t understand – Warren Buffett
123. 10 years from now, make sure that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.
124. Want to change your life? Change your habits.

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125. The aim is to make money, not to be right. – Ned Davis
126. We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest. – Warren Buffett
127. Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. – Warren Buffett
128. To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow. – Benjamin Graham
129. Buy on the fringe and wait. Buy land near a growing city! Or buy real estate when other people want to sell. Hold what you buy! – John Jacob Astor
130. But land is land, and it’s safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers. – Eugene O’neill
131. 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
132. Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it. – Benjamin Graham
133. Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. – Warren Buffett
134. The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different’ – John Templeton

The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different’

John Templeton

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135. If you invest nothing, the reward is very little. – Richelle E. Goodrich
136. In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable. – Robert Arnott
137. Real estate is the purest form of entrepreneurship. – Brian Buffini
138. Never depend on a single income. Make investments to create a second source. – Warren Buffet
139. Know what you own, and know why you own it. – Peter Lynch
140. 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
141. 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
142. Art, like real estate, is half science, half gut. We go to a lot of art fairs. I have two full-time art experts who help me make all the decisions about how to build the corporate and personal collection and what we put in our developments. We don’t let interior designers pick art for us.
143. The investor’s chief problem and even his worst enemy is likely to be himself. – Benjamin Graham

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144. No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owner as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near some growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere. – Russell Sage
145. There’s always in real estate. It’s just a matter of finding that opportunity in the current market. – Samantha DeBianchi
146. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill
147. Every day you have 1,440 minutes. Minutes are your dollars. Invest your time wisely. – Ryan Serhant
148. Your house is not an asset, it is a liability. – Robert Kiyosaki
149. I have always liked real estate; farmland, pastureland, timberland, 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
150. Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there. – William Penn Adair
151. 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
152. 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
153. Cash is king. But cash flow is queen.

Real Estate Realtor Quotes – Agents/Brokers

154. Don’t wait to buy real estate, buy real estate and wait. – T. Harv Eker
155. The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
156. Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they’re interested in buying iy. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes, and see what they see within the first eight seconds. – Barbara Corcoran

Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they’re interested in buying iy. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes, and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

Barbara Corcoran

157. Top agents show up, no matter how much sleep they got or didn’t get, to do the things that help their clients.
158. 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
159. The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive. – Jay Baer
160. Every sale has five obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. – Zig Ziglar
161. On average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent 80 cents out of your dollar. – David Ogilvy

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162. Make a customer, not a sale. – Katherine Barchetti
163. The best time to buy a home is always five years ago. – Ray Brown
164. If you think hiring a professional is expensive, wait till you hire an amateur.

If you think hiring a professional is expensive, wait till you hire an amateur.

165. Now, one thing I tell everyone is about real estate. Repeat after me. Real Estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values, and the least risk. – Armstrong Williams
166. I’m a big believer in a high-quality realtor and I endorse realtors for that reason. High-quality real estate agents all over America. – Dave Ramsey
167. If you can’t say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant
168. You need to fear not having the business more than you fear calling your leads. – Beverly Ruffner
169. If you don’t own a home, buy one. If you own a home, buy another one. And if you own two homes buy a third. And lend your relatives the money to buy a home. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
170. Keep calm and trust your realtor.

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171. I can find you a great apartment, in a great neighborhood, for a low price. Pick two. – Emile L’Eplattenier
172. Information makes people think, emotion makes them act.
173. If your message matches the market, you’re going to win. – Jon Cheplak
174. The most important asset you can own in your business is the attention of your customer. If you don’t own it, someone else does – Adam Contos
175. If you’re not going to put money in real estate, where else? – Tamir Sapir
176. Owning a home is a keystone of wealth – both financial affluence and emotional security. – Suze Orman
177. Real estate practice is not about selling or buying a home. It’s about representing your client’s greatest asset to your client’s greatest benefit.” – Alex Delgado
178. Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results. – Warren Buffet
179. People say they get into real estate for ‘freedom,’ but if you have a lot of freedom, you’re probably not selling any houses! – Dana Galli, HM Properties
180. Home is the nicest word there is. – Laura Ingalls Wilder
181. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Jose Cuervo/Wayne Gretzky/Michael Jordan

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Jose Cuervo/Wayne Gretzky/Michael Jordan

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182. Realtors are the gatekeepers of the community! – Trent Williamson
183. Good intentions and a desire to help people alone will at best lead you to a mediocre career in real estate. – Sean Moudry
184. Sleep is for people without access to the MLS
185. Don’t call me overpaid just because I sold your home fast. That’s exactly what you wanted.
186. At what lengths are you willing to go to on a daily basis to build a thriving real estate career? – Jon Cheplak
187. The sales universe only rewards based on the results you provide and your ability to communicate the value of those results to the customer. – Sean Moudry
188. Most top producers in real estate, like in every business, are focused on learning and biased towards action. If you want to keep growing, you have to make learning and action your highest priorities. – Kurt Uhlir
189. Success in real estate comes down to two factors: taking care of and valuing the customer. – Michael Miedler
190. Don’t beat yourself up. Some transactions will naturally go smoothly, and others are a month of challenges. Learn what you can from each transaction, move on, and start the next one. – Kurt Uhlir
191. If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you’re looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It’s the American Monopoly board. – Ridley Scott

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192. Amateurs sit around and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. – Stephen King
193. Without interest, you’re plain white toast. Boring. Uninteresting. Seen it. Heard it. Moving on. – Jessica Swesey
194. In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand. – Barbara Corcoran
195. Allow other people to speak first; the important factor is not who talks … it’s who listens. – Ilana Eberson
196. Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously. – Lance Morrow
197. What we dwell on is who we become. – Oprah Winfrey
198. A forever real estate agent understands that the concept of home is predicated on the many changes life can bring, and it doesn’t start—or end—with the transaction. – Gino Blefari
199. Quality performance starts with a positive attitude. – Jeffrey Gitomer
200. Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. – David Frost

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.

David Frost

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