"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." — Benjamin Franklin

"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 D. Roosevelt

"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

"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

"Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy." -Marshall Field