"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
"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
"I would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground." ~Shakespeare |