Quotes About Opportunity

you want to build wealth and create financial freedom, you can't just sell real estate; you need to invest in it personally.

There is never a wrong time to buy real estate. When times are good, people complain about the deals they have missed. When times are bad, they claim they can't buy at the top thinking that prices will fall and, therefore, it's not a good investment.

Decide early on if it's a short- or long-term play. Speculators can make money by buying in new condo developments very early and then flipping the units at the first opportunity for a quick profit.

you are in it for the long term, look for areas that have not yet peaked but have great upward potential.

First of all, you don't necessarily need the best location. What you need is the best deal.

recognizable and memorable will almost always have the first opportunity when a seller or a buyer is ready to talk about real estate needs.

Shakespeare put it this way, in a famous quote from Julius Caesar: "The fault is not in our stars, dear Brutus, but in ourselves." That's a clear message. We are responsible for ourselves. We are responsible for our own luck. What an empowering thought! If you see responsibility as a bum deal, then you are not seeing it for what it really is—a great opportunity.

Real estate auctions offer benefits to real estate investors, whether they are buying or selling.

When you are purchasing real estate, the three most important rules remain: location, location, location.

It's funny. My own mother was a housewife all her life. And yet it's turned out that I've hired a lot of women for top jobs, and they've been among my best people. Often, in fact, they are far more effective than the men around them.

point is that the real money isn't made in real estate by spending the top dollar to buy the best location. You can get killed doing that, just as you can get killed buying a bad location, even for a low price. What you should never do is pay too much, even if that means walking away from a very good site. Which is all a more sophisticated way of looking at location.

Have you ever made money from your great idea?

If you ever have the chance to hear his "Think Big" talk, grab the opportunity.

Leverage: don't make deals without it.

Equally important, John Schaub (author of Building Wealth One House at a Time [McGraw-Hill, 2004]) and Jack Miller taught me that single-family rental houses are the best investment for the average investor because houses are so easy to buy, finance, manage, and profitably sell.

Do what others are not doing, and you'll increase your profits tremendously. Go for preforeclosures. These are the true diamonds in the rough of residential investment real estate.

you make your money in real estate when you buy it, not when you sell it.

The illegal immigrants who have taken jobs that should go to people here legally, while over 20 percent of Americans are currently unemployed or underemployed. Believe me, they're all over the place. I see them. I talk to them. I hug them. I hold them. They are all over the place.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

Simply put, we must show people the cost of not doing business with us.

Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won't enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

Make sure the problem you start with is a problem that your company can actually solve.

It's this contrast that keeps the audience on their toes and paying attention. It's as though the story works like this: Scene one (+): Our hero really wants something. Scene two (-): But the opportunity to get that something has been taken away. Scene three (+): An opportunity arises that might help the hero get what they want. Scene four (-): But that opportunity falls through.

offering a vision for how great a customer's life could be if they engage your products or services.