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"Golden Real Estate Quotes" -- David Walker's collection of thoughts and quotes about Real Estate, Homes, Land, Money, and Other Things. Sorted with no rhyme or reason. Date showed is when the quote was first on this web site.
"Golden Real Estate Quotes?" ... well .. Ah ..they are in Gold print! and this is California "The Golden State " Also see Past "Golden Real Estate Quotes"
Dear Readers if you would like to contribute a favorite "Real Estate" quote please send to me via e-mail. I will use those that I think are appropriate and not used prior.
DISCLAIMER: I do not agree with all of the quotations listed. I may have at one point, but that doesn't mean that I do, now. They were recorded for various reasons - they made me think, they made me laugh, they made me roll my eyes and groan... don't be sensitive about them...
David's Golden Quote of the Day:
"Experience of the world may be looked upon as a kind of text, to which reflection and knowledge form the commentary." - Arthur Schopenhauer
February 2010
"People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
January 2010
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." - Napoleon Hill
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson
"The problem with the emotions is not that they are untamed forces or vestiges of our animal past; it is that they were designed to propagate copies of the genes that built them rather than to promote happiness, wisdom, or moral values." - Steven Pinker
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence." - Mark Twain
"Have a Happy New Year and a Prosperous 2010" - David Lee Walker and Family
December 2009
"Happy Holidays" - from David Lee Walker and Family
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." - Sacha Guitry
"Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime." - Mark Twain
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” - Charles Darwin
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate" – Thomas Jefferson
"He who knows not but knows not that he knows not is a fool; shun him. He who knows not, but knows he knows not is a wise man; follow him." - Plato
"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't." - Frank A. Clark
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right." - Hannah Whitall Smith
"There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it and the rest of us." - Lawrence J. Peter
November 2009
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." - John F. Kennedy
"Happy Thanksgiving" - David Walker and Family
"The time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
"All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are." - Alphonse Karr
"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." - Mary Tyler Moore
"One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life." - Anatole France
"I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money, producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers." - Paul Getty
"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change." - Mignon McLaughlin
"Some things are better off kept secret" -Jennifer Ramirez
"Your mountain is waiting so......get on your way!"
---All from "Oh the places you'll go!" - Dr Seuss
"I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was." – Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts." – Ernest Hemingway
"Love - If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what else you have." - Sir James M. Barrie
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert A. Heinlein
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain
October 2009
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein
“As long as we pursue this materialistic kind of lifestyle where we make money, and possessions [are] the only ambition in life, we are going to go downhill and eventually destroy ourselves.” - Rani Ghandi
"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become very happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher--and that is good for any man. " - Socrates
The big-type giveth, and the small-type taketh away.
"In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy and the market economy. For those of us who grew up believing that capitalism is the foundation of democracy and market freedom, it has been a rude awakening to realize that under capitalism, democracy is for sale to the highest bidder and the market economy is centrally planned by global megacorporations larger than most states." - David C. Korten
"Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come." - Bruce Lee
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." - P. J.O'Rourke
"Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt." - Herbert Hoover
September 2009
"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
– Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams
"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency." - Bill Gates
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Winston Churchill
August 2009
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." – Jimi Hendrix
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Sir Cecil Beaton
"This is not Burger King, Federal Express of the Library of Congress. Therefore I do not do it your way, deliver overnight, or know everything"
"Slavery came into being because of the desire to have someone toil so that the owner wouldn’t. All economic systems came into being for the same purpose, but in these cases the newer systems get the slaves to volunteer." - Walt Haskins
"When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target." - Geoffrey F. Fisher
July 2009
"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." - William Arthur Ward
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Forgiveness for ourselves is the journey from guilt over what we have done or not done to the celebration of what we have become." - Dr. Joan Borysenko
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
June 2009
"Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not." - Elias Root Beadle
"Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryon
"All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. He that is drunk is not a man, because he is, for so long, void of reason that distinguishes a man from a beast." – William Penn
"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it." - Irving Berlin
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you
will never pay attention to their limitations again." - James R. Cook
"There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny." - Carl Sagan
May 2009
"Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems." - Billy Joel
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." - Charlie McCarthy
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory." - Leonardo Da Vinci
"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." - Walter Elliott
On the supposed perils of exposing information: "The problem is not that people might steal your ideas and secrets. The problem is that nobody cares about your ideas and secrets." - Anil Menon
"I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism, and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits." - Edward de Bono
"It is better to be lucky than to be good!" - Louis H. Albert
April 2009
"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, ... they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!" - Warren G. Harding
"In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love." - Diego Marchi
"Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it." - Jane Wagner
"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one." - John Galsworthy
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"Good judgment comes from experience... and a lot of that comes from bad judgment!" - Will Rogers
"It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." - Elinor Smith
"Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends." - Charles De Gaulle
"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves." - Lane Joseph Kirkland
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
March 2009
"The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from the shore." - Dale Carnegie
"Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore." - Dorothy Bryant
"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?" - Mary Manin Morrissey
"Every really new idea looks crazy at first." - Alfred North Whitehead
"History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future." - Miguel de Cervantes
"Being truthful, when you know it will cost you, is the true test of honesty." - Dave Weinbaum
"The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities." - Frank Barron
"You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough." - Joseph E. Levine, Hollywood producer
"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water." - Kate Chopin
"If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance." - James Gorman
February 2009
"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see the land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." - Aldo Leopold
"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort."
– Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
"Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We’re all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos." - David Cronenberg
"Success in life comes not from having the right cards, but from playing bad ones properly." - Joshua Dool
"If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are." - T. S. Elliot
"One of the most serious problems in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligations to follow their doctrine." - from a Russian document
"People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw
"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly." - Simeon Strunsky
January 2009
"My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece." - Claude Monet
"Life is like a camel. You can make it do anything except back up." - Marcelene Cox
"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"That's a universal translator. We're not even supposed to have it, and I'll tell you why: Human thought is so primitive it's looked upon as an infectious disease in some of the better galaxies. That kinda makes you feel proud, doesn't it?" - "Agent K", Men in Black
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." - Dick Cavett
"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness." - Aristotle
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." - Victoria Holt
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