When you’re seeking motivation, encouragement, and support, quotes are a great place to look for inspiration. Below are 37 of our favorite real estate quotes—from those meant to uplift real estate professionals to snippets you can use in your marketing materials.
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Inspirational real estate quotes
Find motivation in these inspirational quotes from real estate experts, celebrities, and professional speakers.
Quote #1
“Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they’re interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes, and see what they see within the first eight seconds.” — Barbara Corcoran
Quote #2
“A real estate agent has two property listings. Now add 11 more. What does the agent have now? Happiness. That agent has happiness.” — Tim Dulaney
Quote #3
“To be successful in real estate you must always, and consistently, put your clients’ best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.” — Anthony Hitt
Quote #4
“Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people, and find common ground. That’s the way you sell houses…that’s also the way you win over a constituency.” — Johnny Isakson
Quote #5
“Every sale has five obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” — Zig Ziglar
Quote #6
“I think people in real estate always love to say that real estate is local, and that is always 1,000% true. It’s also very situational…listening to what your clients tell you about what their circ*mstances are, what their motivations are, what they need, when they need to accomplish it, and come up with a plan and a strategy around that.” — Nicole Beauchamp
Quote #7
“Your brand is a promise. It tells clients what the experience of working with you will be like.” — Kofi Nartey
Quote #8
“Not following up with your prospects is the same as filling up your bathtub without first putting the stopper in the drain.” — Michelle Moore
Quote #9
“One saying that needs to have its proverbial status revoked is the well—known real estate adage, ‘Buy the worst house in the best neighborhood.” — Spencer Rascoff
Quote #10
“You need to be courageous, even when things come up against you…you need to be vibrant because your energy is what’s going to attract your business.” — Terrica Lynn Smith
Quote #11
“Typically, the research tells us, that a high—quality real estate agent that really knows what they are doing will add more to the equation than they cost. Because people make mistakes when selling their own home – the mistakes are costly.” — Dave Ramsey
Quote #12
“Real estate is a fast-growing, exciting field that offers almost unlimited income potential to a person who is willing to work hard and to learn the special features of this very interesting business.” — J. Bruce Lindeman
Quote #13
“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
Quote #14
“Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.” – Warren Buffett
Quote #15
“In my experience, in the real estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.” — Akira Mori
Quote #16
“You must never try to make all the money that’s in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won’t have many deals.” — J. Paul Getty
Quote #17
“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
Real estate quotes to motivate buyers and sellers
These real estate quotes are particularly great for motivating and inspiring prospective clients. Consider using them on social media or in other marketing materials.
Quote #18
“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.” Grover Cleveland
Quote #19
“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
Quote #20
“Private property was the original source of freedom. It is still its main bulwark.” — Walter Lippmann
Quote #21
“Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.” — Marshall Field
Quote #22
“I view real estate as the most intriguing opportunity that I’ve seen in my business lifetime.” — Richard Rainwater
Quote #23
“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
Quote #24
“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
Quote #25
“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
Quote #26
“There are so many elements of respectability that come to him who finds permanent shelter for his loved ones. It is a force for law, since a home owner desires protection by law. He acquires respect for the property of others. He wants good sound government and desires to become an advocate of law and order.” — John H. Puelicher
Quote #27
“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
Quote #28
“Now, one thing I can tell everyone is to learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.” — Armstrong Williams
Quote #29
“I still think buying a home is the best investment any individual can make.” – John Paulson
Quote #30
“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 cl*theroe
Quote #31
“The bottom line: investing in real estate is smart because property is tangible. People always have, and always will, need shelter. This means it is very unlikely that our need for shelter (ie: buying or renting homes) will ever go away.” — Kathy Fettke
Quote #32
“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” — Mark Twain
Quote #33
“In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money…there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.” — Sarah Beeny
Quote #34
“Don’t wait to buy real estate, buy real estate and wait.” — Will Rogers
Quote #35
“The ownership of a home, the feelings of independence that comes with the possession of a bit of the earth are among the most powerful incentives to high civic interest and usefulness.” — Calvin Coolidge
Quote #36
“Real estate investment is certainly a vote of confidence on future activity.” — Fiona Sigalla
Quote #37
“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
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