"Don't wait to buy land, buy land and wait."
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers - American Actor, Cowboy, Comedian, Humorist, and Social Commentor

"Buy land, they're not making it anymore."
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) - American Author and Humorist

“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 - American Financier and Politician

"The best investment on earth is earth."
Louis Glickman - American Real Estate Investor and Philanthropist

“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 - Scottish Industrialist, Businessman, Entrepreneur, and Major Philanthropist

"The major fortunes in America have been made in land."
John D. Rockefeller - American Industrialist

“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 - Democratic Nominee For President and Lawyer

"I would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground."
William Shakespeare - English Playwright and Poet

"The small landholders are the most precious part of a state."
Thomas Jefferson - American President

“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 - American President

“Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, but the only way to become wealthy.”
Marshall Field - American Entreprenuer

“Land increases more rapidly in value at the centers and about the circumference of cities.”
William E. Harmon - American Real Estate Businessman

“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 - First Multi-Millionaire in the United States

“Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.”
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers - American Actor, Cowboy, Comedian, Humorist, and Social Commentor

“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 - American President

“The West is the best, get here and we’ll do the rest.”
James Douglas Morrison (Jim Morrison) - American Musician, Writer, and Filmmaker

“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 - American Businesswoman

“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 - American President

"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 - American Essayist, Philosopher, and Poet

“Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.”
John Stuart Mill - English Philosopher and Economist

"My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone."
Gladys Taber - American Author and Columnist

"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 - English Writer and Philosopher

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."
Henry David Thoreau - American Author, Poet, and Naturalist

“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 - American Politician and Entrepreneur

“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 - British Politician

“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 - American Real Estate Investor

“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 - English Novelist