“The major fortunes in America have been made in land.”
- John D. Rockefeller
“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
“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.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.”
- Gladys Taber
“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.”
- Harriet Martineau
“The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“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
“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.”
- Jesse H. Jones
“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
“Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.”
- John Stuart Mill
“Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, but the only way to become wealthy.”
- Marshall Field
“Land increases more rapidly in value at the centers and about the circumference of cities.”
- William E. Harmon
“The best investment on earth is earth.”
- Louis Glickman
“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
“Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.”
- Will Rogers
“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
“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.”
- Andrew Carnegie
“The West is the best, get here and we’ll do the rest.”
- James Douglas Morrison
“I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.”
- Hetty Green
“No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near a growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere.”
- Grover Cleveland
“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 Delano Roosevelt
“Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.”
- William Jennings Bryan
“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
“Don’t wait to buy land, buy land and wait.”
“Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.”
- Will Rogers
“I would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”
- William Shakespeare
