Trivia
“Property is organized robbery.”
George Bernard Shaw, 1856 to 1950, Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925
“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
1882 to 1945, President of the United States
“It’s tangible, it’s solid, it’s beautiful. It’s artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.”
Donald Trump
14 June 1946 to present, business executive, founder and CEO of Trump Organization of the USA
“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
1816 to 1906, financier and politician from
New York
“Buy on the fringe and wait. Buy land near a growing city! Buy real estate when other people want to sell. Hold what you buy!”
John Jacob Astor
1763 to 1848, the first millionaire in the United States, making his fortune in the fur trade and real estate industries
“Landlords grow rich in their sleep.”
John Stuart Mill
1806 to 1873, English philosopher and political economist
“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
1874 to 1965, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953
“Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.”
Marshall Field
1835 to 1906, founder of the department store chain now known as Macy’s
“Land increases more rapidly in value at the centres and about the circumference of cities.”
William E. Harmon, 1862 to 1928, noted realty operator and founder of Harmon Foundation in New York
“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.”
Anthony Trollope, 1815 to1882, English novelist
“The best investment on earth is earth.”
Louis J Glickman, American business executive and real estate owner
“No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 to 1882, American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist
“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, 1858 to 1919, President of the United States