Quotes About Land & Real Estate
They aren't making any more land. It's a simple rule of supply and demand. Property prices continue to increase as more people become aware of the value of land as an investment. If you are tired of overcrowded city living maybe it is time to get a few acres to call your own. Here are just a few quotes about the value of land as an investment and as peace of mind.
"Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate."
- Andrew Carnegie
"The major fortunes in America have been made in land."
- John D. Rockefeller
"I would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground."
- Shakespeare
"The small landholders are the most precious part of a state."
- Thomas Jefferson
"He is not a full man who does not own a piece of land."
- Hebrew Proverb
"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
"The best investment on earth is earth."
- Louis Glickman
"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
"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